Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 2 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 3 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 4 | ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm . |
| 5 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 6 | In the past it has sometimes been difficult to avoid planting directly on to the marginal shelf , especially in pre-formed pools . |
| 7 | In part it has also been due to a lack of suitable models of how the combination of attributes could take place . |
| 8 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 9 | At best , however , the feudal summons could produce a cavalry force of little over 500 men , and even in Edward I 's reign it had obviously been insufficient in itself as a means of raising an army . |
| 10 | ya , they 're feeling their way it 's only been open |
| 11 | In the eighteenth century it had still been possible for Turks to feel that the empire , inherently superior to the infidel states which threatened it , had no need to stoop to such devices ; but such an attitude was now no longer practicable . |
| 12 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 13 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |