Example sentences of "it have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 2 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 3 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 4 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 5 | In circumstances in which the opinion leaders and policy-makers in adult education have responded to the women 's movement at all , it has been to co-opt feminism into their platitudes , whilst at the same time seeking to deflect and defeat the radical intention of women 's liberation as it might be applied in adult education and society generally . |
| 6 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 7 | And er you know there is this attitude that nature it has been said nature is untidy well nature by its very definition is untidy . |
| 8 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 9 | It has been received wisdom that Scotland is fiercely opposed to the NHS reforms , especially to hospital trusts . |
| 10 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 11 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 12 | In fact where it has been adopted results suggest that most employees are extremely realistic about their own performance and can indeed make a reasonably accurate assessment . |
| 13 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
| 14 | Reductivism and retributivism do not exhaust all the possible justifications for punishment , or the aims which it has been suggested punishment can rightly pursue . |
| 15 | It has been sliced longways to show the internal structure . |
| 16 | O. spectabilis is found on both sides of the North Atlantic : in the west it has been recorded from off Nova Scotia at the depth of 238 m , while in the east it has been found south of Iceland , Norway , SW . |
| 17 | It has been working miracles . |
| 18 | For the last three years , it has been working flat out on its comparability project , to reduce the number of alternative accounting methods allowed in its international accounting standards . |
| 19 | As we have already seen , the law has been less ready to protect these interests from negligently inflicted harm than it has been to protect person and tangible property , but we are now concerned only with liability for intended harm . |
| 20 | During the opening ceremony Governor Hunt paid special tribute to Courtaulds ' long association with Alabama — it has been making viscose rayon there for 40 years — presenting a ‘ birthday ’ proclamation to David Duthie , head of the company 's Cellulosics business . |
| 21 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 22 | Formed in 1920 it has been making men 's shoes in Rushden ever since . |
| 23 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |
| 24 | It has been selling IBM notebooks at a rate of some 2,000 a month since last spring but now wants to sell the PS/V models that were unveiled by IBM Japan Ltd in October . |
| 25 | The latter has also been identified in proliferating Schwann cells where it has been termed SCIP [ 9 ] . |
| 26 | Could it have been Sitting Bull warning me about the distortion of Indian history in Hollywood films ? |
| 27 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 28 | Sponsored by the Russian Federation government and staffed largely by defectors from Soviet central television , it had been given air time totalling just over six hours a day on Soviet television 's second channel [ for February 1991 curbs on Radio Russia see p. 38015 ] . |
| 29 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 30 | It had been assisting people over the wall longer than anyone could remember . |