Example sentences of "it have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 2 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 3 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 4 | Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason . |
| 5 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 6 | It has been a rough week down at Eurotunnel as you might imagine . |
| 7 | For Labour , it has been a good week . |
| 8 | IT HAS been a week of mixed fortunes for the some of the world 's more repressive regimes . |
| 9 | IT HAS been a tough quarter of a century for Albertina Sisulu . |
| 10 | It has been a rebirth — and all the more vigorous for being so long overdue . |
| 11 | For a backbencher , it has been a remarkable performance . |
| 12 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 13 | It has been a less serious factor in the French-speaking countries where European traders and shopkeepers continue to operate small businesses , although these could be periodically subject to local political pressures including arbitrary taxation . |
| 14 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 15 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 16 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 17 | In fact , it has been a big experience . ’ |
| 18 | It has been a decade divided irredeemably between dance clubs and rock arenas , between acid house and pomp rock , and between teeming fringe activity and an increasingly vast and immovable mainstream . |
| 19 | It has been a bad autumn for birds of prey and five kestrels have been brought into the sanctuary in an emaciated condition . |
| 20 | But one banking source involved in the NAB syndicate said : ‘ It has been a long-running saga and banks were worried about yet another swing of assets from one part of the Bond organisation to another . ’ |
| 21 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 22 | In fact it has been a dazzling success , by almost every measure . |
| 23 | In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash . |
| 24 | It has been a hard week for the trade warriors . |
| 25 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |
| 26 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 27 | Calpers , with $1.5 billion invested in Japan , fears it has been a victim of this practice , along with other American pension funds . |
| 28 | It has been a superb opportunity to compare the varied football cultures . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've always tried to keep the game open and in this respect for many of the younger players it has been a learning experience , ’ said Gray . |
| 30 | For centuries , it has been a focal point for some of the great rivalries between Christianity and Islam , Catholic and Orthodox , fascist and communist . |