Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 2 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 3 | Erm I think probably yes the debate has been probably as extensive as it needs to be . |
| 4 | I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be . |
| 5 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
| 6 | Aristotle knows of a time in which the constitution of Massalia had been even more oligarchic than it was in his time ( Pol . |
| 7 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 8 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 9 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |