Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] it has [been] " in BNC.

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1 Until now it has been thought that interferon can do little to prevent the initial entry of viruses into a cell .
2 Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other .
3 The new process could make carpet recycling possible on a major scale ; until now it has been laborious and expensive to separate out the component materials , which often include wool , nylon as well as latex .
4 From there it has been downhill all the way .
5 Up to now it has been run as a cost centre rather than a profit maker , but the Broadcasting Act specified change .
6 Since then it has been brilliantly restored to as close to its original condition as can be .
7 Since then it has been adapted and we now use phase A as a warm up for the steeplechase and phase C as a ‘ let down ’ after the steeplechase .
8 Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards .
9 Its present form dates from the 1920s and since then it has been tested and explored rigorously ( though not without problems ) .
10 Since then it has been offered on a limited basis in Germany and as a routine service in Lyons , France , and Antwerp , Belgium .
11 I think that since then it has been damaging . ’
12 Since then it has been reported that Soviet television has covered the election of a factory director by delegates representing the workforce of 13,000 .
13 Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth .
14 The last wolf was shot in west Germany as far back as 1846 and since then it has been registered as extinct .
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