Example sentences of "it [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government-run NORP is still in operation today , however the observation that this programme is not mentioned in much of the post-1985 literature on oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh , suggests that it has been of limited value to the people of Bangladesh . |
| 2 | Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members . |
| 3 | At present any member of the public can consult it all day long , all year round , and there is no doubt that it has been of invaluable help not only to scholars but also to the art trade . |
| 4 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 5 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 6 | Before , it has been with blind faith only . |
| 7 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 8 | Where interiors have survived , it has been through benign neglect . |
| 9 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 10 | Goody himself seems to suggest that ‘ restricted ’ literacy is indeed the norm in all societies except later classical Greece , thereby undermining somewhat the significance of these general applications of the term : ‘ Nowhere was the impact of literacy as radical as it has been in classical Greece . |
| 11 | For France , Bull created the Centre of ImageWorks Engineering in March , but it has been in full operation only since mid-June , says its director , Thierry Labarre . |
| 12 | It has been in accelerating decline for more than a decade , but the crunch is fast approaching . |
| 13 | No doubt his electoral leadership was of value ; but can it have been of decisive importance ? |
| 14 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 15 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 16 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 17 | It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper . |
| 18 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 19 | But the final sale price was still pounds more than it had been in normal trading the month before . |
| 20 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 21 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |