Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " 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 Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience .
6 The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV .
7 She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her .
8 It had been about Hegel , the German idealist dead within recent memory , and Paul tried to assemble his thoughts on the matter as he again walked up Bath Street Lane .
9 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 .
10 Indeed , it had been on roach trips that I have found most of my bream swims in the past and although I 'm a roach man first and foremost , a splendid , clean seven pound river bream has never given me cause for complaint !
11 Almost certainly it had been on camera-reconnaissance , photographing the British reserves being rushed up .
12 To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars .
13 Earlier it had been on view at 66 Portland Place , and it will shortly complete its run in Folkestone .
14 He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter .
15 In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme .
16 Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations .
17 They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made .
18 At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries .
19 In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns .
20 In the eighteenth century the possession of land was still , as it had been for centuries , the only firm basis of influence and power .
21 Indeed , it was better than it had been for months .
22 Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it .
23 But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle .
24 Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding .
25 This year , the abundance of berries was the best it had been for years .
26 Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days .
27 Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism .
28 In cases where marriage has been discussed , pregnancy is not unwelcome , and may even have been anticipated , as it had been for Claire , who married her husband when she was five months pregnant .
29 It had been of course her suggestion that Mark 's pastoral visit should be no longer delayed .
30 The essence of European diplomacy was still political , still what it had been to Metternich or even to Richelieu .
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