Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 32 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 33 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |
| 34 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 35 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 36 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 37 | Nevertheless it had been at Bray 's Buildings , stench or no stench , squeals of slaughtered beasts or no squeals , that one of the most fascinating of Benjamin 's children had entered the world . |
| 38 | Although the capacity was restricted to 25,000 , because of the redevelopment of Leeds ' home , the noise and expectancy from the crowd was as intense as it had been at Ibrox . |
| 39 | He stole the baggage after it had been through customs . ’ |
| 40 | The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle . |
| 41 | The Wey and Arun Junction Canal was formally closed in 1871 , leaving Newbridge Wharf as the terminus it had been before construction of this waterway , until the closure of the Arun Navigation in 1888 . |
| 42 | 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 ? |
| 43 | With a force totalling some 7000 , he began to subdue much of eastern Castile , making it as strong as it had been before Sagrajas . |
| 44 | Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate . |
| 45 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 46 | If that trust is breached , as the Whigs held that it had been by James II , the people have the right to resist the government and replace it with another . |
| 47 | Such an approach was repudiated by Harold Macmillan , the then Prime Minister , when we applied to join the Community , as it had been by Winston Churchill before that . |
| 48 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 49 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 50 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 51 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 52 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 53 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 54 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 55 | The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek . |
| 56 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 57 | The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 58 | She continued to lean against the gravestone , sick and shaking , her teeth chattering , her stomach as knotted and tormented as it had been in childbirth . |
| 59 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 60 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |