Example sentences of "and it [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 2 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 3 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 4 | She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day . |
| 5 | And it 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 6 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 7 | And we got it back into the family and it 's been with us ever since . |
| 8 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 9 | As a result , an Inservice Panel was established in June 1983 , and it has been through this body that project-related INSET development can be traced . |
| 10 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 11 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 14 | And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion . |