Example sentences of "it been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 2 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |
| 3 | What had it been about ? |
| 4 | Well Ken , has it been worth it ? |
| 5 | The question was , had it been to Romania and back ? |
| 6 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 7 | Safety from Angel One , whom he felt sure had intended to kill them , had n't it been for Grant 's timely arrival . |
| 8 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 9 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , what 's it been like — first day back ? ’ |
| 11 | How long had it been like this , untouched by people , gradually decaying and changing with the wind and the weather ? |
| 12 | Er what 's the atmosphere like in Belfast , what 's it been like this week ? |
| 13 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 14 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 15 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 16 | The SEC 's Rule 14e-3 , which derives validity from s.14(e) of the SEA 1934 , forms the basis of insider trading liability for tender offers , or , in British parlance , take-overs , and would probably , had it been in operation , covered the trading activities of both Newman and Chiarella . |
| 17 | In these circumstances MacDonald could not be treated as a cast-off glove — even had it been in Baldwin 's nature to do so . |
| 18 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
| 19 | Had it been in administration , we would have put forward to our budget . |
| 20 | Has it been in there with the books ? |