Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] it [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |
| 2 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 3 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 4 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 5 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 6 | A streamlined eighty-footer , it was obvious that it had been , until very , very recently , a dazzling white . |
| 7 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 9 | It is not credible that the Court of Appeal would refuse to quash a conviction in the context of a referral on the ground that the conviction was inviolable because it had been restored by the House of Lords in the original proceedings . |
| 10 | On reflection he was sure that it had been his own personal brush with the Sabbah organisation two years earlier that had caused him to overreact . |
| 11 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |
| 12 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 13 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 14 | Progress was slower than it had been upstairs . |
| 15 | Harold was pleased that it had been arranged , but he did not arrive unaccompanied since Haines was with him . |
| 16 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 17 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |