Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been done up you see , it 's been altered and it 's now the community centre they call it is it not Nana ? |
| 2 | A man stays in line because he has been taught that it is wrong not to . |
| 3 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 4 | Oh well it could n't have been carried because it was long di I do n't know how cos I ca n't remember . |
| 5 | In slightly less than a year , citizens high expectations had been shattered and it was all over . |
| 6 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus . |
| 8 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 9 | And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms . |
| 10 | Prime 's Natick , Massachusetts headquarters has been sold and it is now headquartered at the old Computervision base in Bedford , Massachusetts . |
| 11 | The advantages of gamma scintigraphy are offset by the fact that patients are required to be static during imaging , whereas it has been shown that it is more reliable to monitor reflux in ambulant patients than patients restricted within a hospital routine . |
| 12 | Premier League chief Rick Parry has been invited but it is only for the 14 clubs . |
| 13 | In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort . |
| 14 | Now , it is in the nature of the critique of this aspect of classical Marxism which has already been proposed that it is not possible to erect an alternative ‘ general theory ’ . |
| 15 | This shrine has long been abandoned but it is still a place of great power and of deep significance to both the Elves and the Dark Elves . |
| 16 | b ) In cases where a Default Notice has not been served because it is not required under the Consumer Credit Act , we shall send you a letter of demand , requiring repayment of a specified sum . |
| 17 | Our view is that the medicine has been delivered and it is just a matter of sitting it out , ’ said an MAFF specialist , John Wilesmith . |
| 18 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 19 | It had been redecorated in Baroque style in the eighteenth century , but its Medieval character had been retained until it was wantonly destroyed by order of the Germans in the Second World War . |
| 20 | The agreement for their sale to Cohens was dated 12 October 1935 , and must have been signed while it was still hoped that the line would open right through from Sutton to the Crystal Palace in one operation . |
| 21 | Article 6 has never been implemented and it is highly unlikely that it would be used in this way , especially as the consequence would be to release the offending State from those Charter principles that were not deemed to be customary international law . |
| 22 | The bill should not have been sent and it is extremely regrettable , ’ said a trust spokesman . |
| 23 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 24 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 25 | This interpretation of the structure of power and the role of the state in modern capitalism has been questioned because it is overly determinist and descriptive . |
| 26 | As it occurs only in the males it has been suggested that it is somehow employed in male-to-male rivalry . |
| 27 | Indeed , it has been suggested that it is here that the ‘ site ’ of psychosis lies ; not in a strictly anatomical sense but as a functional property , determining the way the corpus callosum modulates the flow of information between the hemispheres . |
| 28 | More precisely , in linguistic terms , it has been suggested that it is not as straightforward as Lyons implies to attribute the possibility of ‘ neutrality ’ to English grammar ; some aspects , such as pronoun usage , are more context-dependent than he allows . |
| 29 | Alternatively it has been suggested that it is not so much the school effect which is important as the curriculum which is followed . |
| 30 | Equally , it has been suggested that it is precisely the growing awareness amongst CMHTs themselves that they are only a partial solution to the problems of inter-professional collaboration which is leading them to specify more precisely their objectives and responsibilities . |