Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 2 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 3 | As middlemen since then , the Iranians and the Russians have pushed the UN further into the background and , at least until peace really does break out , the Americans have been happy for it to stay there . |
| 4 | Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different . |
| 5 | For it to have left archaeological evidence it would have been necessary for it to have been manifested by a physical act of some kind , which would necessarily need to result in the production of something capable of preservation in the archaeological context . |
| 6 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |