Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The green staff worked miracles to get the course fit for play after it had been under water from Thursday night 's storms . |
| 2 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 3 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 4 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 5 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 6 | Almost certainly it had been on camera-reconnaissance , photographing the British reserves being rushed up . |
| 7 | Earlier it had been on view at 66 Portland Place , and it will shortly complete its run in Folkestone . |
| 8 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 9 | It had been of course her suggestion that Mark 's pastoral visit should be no longer delayed . |
| 10 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 11 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 12 | The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle . |
| 13 | The Wey and Arun Junction Canal was formally closed in 1871 , leaving Newbridge Wharf as the terminus it had been before construction of this waterway , until the closure of the Arun Navigation in 1888 . |
| 14 | Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate . |
| 15 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 16 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 19 | She continued to lean against the gravestone , sick and shaking , her teeth chattering , her stomach as knotted and tormented as it had been in childbirth . |
| 20 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 21 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 22 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 23 | She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality . |
| 24 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 25 | Since it had been in power Labour had improved conditions , particularly through provision of milk to mothers and children ( SE 16 October 20 ) . |
| 26 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 27 | It had been in touch with air control in Athens and had been instructed to alter course over the island of Amorgós — that 's about forty miles north-east of here — and proceed on a roughly north-north-west course . |
| 28 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 29 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 30 | But now the human nature of Jesus was not only perfect — as it had been from conception — it was a risen humanity beyond death . |