Example sentences of "[prep] it have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present owners purchased the mill in 1976 after part of it had been used to house chickens and the mill-pond had been used for fish-farming . |
| 2 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 3 | Much of it had been enclosed , and pasture-farming was the predominant mode of agriculture . |
| 4 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 5 | The prosecution was allowed to sum up its evidence in secret hearing as part of it had been given in camera . |
| 6 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 7 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 8 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 9 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
| 10 | He left England on 27 October and two days later he lectured at Hamburg on " The Idea of a Christian Society " ; the tour , which he made with Arnold Toynbee , included visits to nine cities , but he complained later that not the least exhausting part of it had been the expectation from his hosts that lie was some kind of oracle as well as a poet . |
| 11 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 12 | There had been a lot of talk among the customers about Harry Pascoe 's venture to the Americas , and not all of it had been complimentary . |
| 13 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 14 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 15 | None of it had been intended . |
| 16 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 17 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 18 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 19 | The controlled force of her emotion when speaking of it had been frightening . |
| 20 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 21 | Indeed she did , for having sacrificed herself for this damnable dress material it was no more than commonsense to make certain that no part of it had been damaged or soiled , that she could go to Miss Dallam presently , when she found the strength to get up out of this bed and tidy her hair and her cuts and bruises , as if absolutely nothing had occurred . |
| 22 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 23 | The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek . |
| 24 | Everything they had on the balcony got smeared with tar because the floor of it had been macadamed . |
| 25 | If he had , she could have persuaded herself that none of it had been her fault — that he 'd physically forced her into making love . |
| 26 | There had been something of a reproof in that letter , even though no word of it had been written openly . |
| 27 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 28 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 29 | Spending his five shillings had given him great satisfaction , particularly as none of it had been wasted . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |