Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adj] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship . |
| 2 | It has been alarmed by Mr Chatichai 's dream of turning Indochina ‘ from a battlefield into a marketplace ’ : this would end the army 's grip on the border trade . |
| 3 | It has been available since September 1987 , with the first examinations in summer 1989 . |
| 4 | ‘ But generally speaking , it has been difficult since September 1988 . |
| 5 | ‘ But generally speaking , it has been difficult since September 1988 . |
| 6 | It has been hard for Souness to stamp his authority in a similar way since he took over when Dalglishfatigued by the demands of the Anfield job departed 22 months ago . |
| 7 | This door was closed too carefully , perhaps too stealthily , for it to have been any of Haverford 's doing . |
| 8 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 9 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 10 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 11 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 12 | In the circumstances ( that is , of Jack 's plan to have his wife and mistress under one roof ) it had been necessary for Patrick to move , and Patrick , being distinctly better , had moved , or had been moved . |
| 13 | It had been latent in Lewis ever since his encounter with God in Magdalen in the summer of 1929 . |
| 14 | It had been useless for Denis to protest that Iron Josh was an outsider with no involvement in their cause one way or the other . |
| 15 | It had been hand-delivered to Kensington Palace and then carefully placed on top of all Diana 's other mail . |
| 16 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 17 | And if it had been obvious to Jean then Silas would notice it in two seconds or less . |
| 18 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 19 | Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third . |