Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 2 | Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised . |
| 3 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 4 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 5 | It had been well and truly earthed . |
| 6 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 7 | It had been there but he had not seen it . |
| 8 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 9 | And it come , at the end of the day it comes out with all the ones it 's matched , the duration it 's been there and er makes it a damned sight easier basically . |
| 10 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |