Example sentences of "it have [adv] been [art] " in BNC.

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1 The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years .
2 In the last thirty years , however , it has increasingly been the lawyers who have projected the legal solution to those who were previously estranged .
3 It has generally been the case that people who leave the DUP see their political careers terminated .
4 Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing .
5 In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers .
6 It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working .
7 Yes , well it has also been a point that for all their substantially lower salaries there are far more bright sparks in the higher echelons of public sector management than is credited .
8 It has also been the scene of other great British triumphs .
9 The precise location of the boundaries between the middle class and the classes above and below it has also been the subject of dispute .
10 What my hon. Friend has said is certainly the case at Rover , but it has also been the case throughout industry during the past year , when there was the lowest number of strikes for more than 45 years .
11 More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years .
12 While the main pressure for a common framework for the curriculum emerged from the lead given by DES and HMI , it has also been an issue taken up by academics and some local authorities .
13 It has just been a long battle for us all .
14 I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down .
15 This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification .
16 Their public excuse was that they attempted to do so in the Social Security Act 1986 , but it has clearly been a failure .
17 It has however been the subject of much criticism , which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century .
18 Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales .
19 It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’
20 If my memory serves me correctly , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment said that Humberside would be the first because it has already been the subject of a local government boundary commission report .
21 The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics .
22 ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate …
23 The Queen goes on : ‘ It has indeed been a sombre year .
24 As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year .
25 It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt .
26 It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt .
27 Now it is celebrating its 18th year with Citalia and over that time it has consistently been a most popular resort hotel .
28 This will not be my project here , though it has certainly been a feature of my engagement with de Man 's criticism in general .
29 It has certainly been a bad start , ’ said Richard Lynch in BIFU 's London office .
30 It has certainly been an up and down season so far and we have n't started the winter league yet — I 'll keep you informed as the dramas unfold .
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