Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm .
2 In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history .
3 In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history .
4 I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years .
5 It has always been like that .
6 If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that .
7 ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ .
8 ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’
9 It had not been at all like that .
10 She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such .
11 It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place .
12 I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’
13 And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’
14 ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’
15 If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’
16 Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together .
17 It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all .
18 But it had n't been like that .
19 It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl .
20 It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen …
21 It had always been like that .
22 I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that .
23 The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been .
24 The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are .
25 But let's propose a statement , which through the county treasurer 's report in any detail today , it 's already been to all service committees and I 'm sure you 're very familiar with it 's contents .
26 So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ?
27 Even if 95 per cent of it 's rubbish — and it 's usually been like that — the other five per cent is always going to be enough .
28 See it 's never been off that heating .
29 No it 's always been like that .
30 well it never has done I mean that , it 's always been like that I 've never had
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