Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adj] [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loch 's reputation in Shropshire does not appear to have been so contentious as it was in Scotland , and the landscape he created in the Wealdmoors is now level ploughland of peat interspersed with rectangular plantations of poplar . |
| 2 | The trade unions have been largely silent and it was felt that the media had a lot to answer for in this department . |
| 3 | Unhappily the city fell into partial ruin in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century , but restoration has been carefully continuing since it was begun by Viollet-le-Duc in 1844 ( 445 and 447 ) . |
| 4 | Neither can the student unrest in Germany be said to have been as serious as it was in France . |
| 5 | One of the greatest historic collections of classical sculpture has been almost inaccessible since it was acquired by the Italian State in 1901 . |
| 6 | in his heart , even then , he had been pretty sure that it was |
| 7 | The football might n't have been very good but it was a great time , magic . |
| 8 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |