Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 2 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 3 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 4 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 5 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 6 | Since it had been in power Labour had improved conditions , particularly through provision of milk to mothers and children ( SE 16 October 20 ) . |
| 7 | The green staff worked miracles to get the course fit for play after it had been under water from Thursday night 's storms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality . |
| 13 | But now the human nature of Jesus was not only perfect — as it had been from conception — it was a risen humanity beyond death . |