Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 2 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 3 | On April 30 Namibia was also formally admitted as a full member of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , of which it had previously been an associate member . |
| 4 | However , after the general election the new government ended in May Iceland 's boycott of the negotiations , at which it had previously been represented in an observer capacity only . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union acted immediately on Aug. 2 to suspend weapons shipments to Iraq , to which it had historically been the principal arms supplier . |
| 6 | The USSR , as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality , was declared no longer in existence , and the three republics individually denounced the 1922 treaty through which it had originally been established . |
| 7 | Homosexuality was plundered partly for its shock value but more importantly the sensibility , which quickly permeated Glam Rock , with which it had long been associated : camp . |
| 8 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 9 | One aspect of the regional geography of job loss and job change which it has not been possible to examine in the chapter is the contrasting ways in which different regions of the UK relate to the international division of labour . |
| 10 | The chief weakness of the House of Commons is in matters of taxation ; the way in which it has not been able to keep pace with administrative developments is that it has no method of collecting information ( other than the briefing from outside pressure groups already mentioned ) on the social and other side-effects of a tax or of examining possible future departures in taxation policy . |
| 11 | Paradise still tends towards blandness in places but overall this is a strong , proud piece of artistic solidarity which merits notice beyond the middle-of-the-road bargain bins to which it has already been consigned . |
| 12 | These eight tasks of audit can not be carried out in smaller schools — schools in which it has never been possible to develop subject differentiation to the same degree as in larger schools . |
| 13 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 14 | He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) . |
| 15 | Now they managed to get along together reasonably well , but she knew their relationship was a million miles from what it had once been , and it was an enduring sadness in her life . |
| 16 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 17 | When I think that up until last night I was even hoping that I might look at you and wonder what it had all been about — that I 'd feel nothing ! |
| 18 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 19 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 20 | The most essential function of the diplomat resident for a substantial period of time in some foreign capital remained what it had always been : the collecting and sending home of information . |
| 21 | And thirdly , when buying out looked more likely from the 1960's onwards , as members increasingly voiced dissatisfaction at the Club 's management , some existing bondholders played hard to get , clearly reluctant in several instances and for reasons unrecorded , to give us what it had never been intended should be a permanent arrangement or the basis of an elite . |
| 22 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 23 | What it has not been able to do is provide a coherent explanation of the variations it often describes , nor account for changes in mores and consciousness . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen , however , whether its wording will turn out to be adequate to achieve what it has here been suggested is its purpose . |
| 25 | The Cirque de Gavarnie , be it known , is even more today what it has long been , the place in all the Pyrenees for tourists . |