Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh det] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after she moved in , the house began to grow on her and she already had plenty of ideas for improving what had originally been three farm workers ' cottages . |
| 2 | It was an instrument of state policy which prevented members of the public from doing what had previously been lawful . |
| 3 | The requirement of being implementable in the form of programs imposes a new and healthy constraint on theorising which has not been present previously . |
| 4 | The distinction between a statute creating a public right and a statute prohibiting what had previously been lawful is not a satisfactory one as it does not appear to be based on any particular principle . |
| 5 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |