Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 3 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 4 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 5 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 6 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 7 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 13 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 16 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 17 | She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality . |
| 18 | In a painting such as the Female Figure , executed in the winter of 1910–11 , the subject is still much more easily recognizable than it had been in Picasso 's Cadaquès work , or even in the Portrait of Kahnweiler . |
| 19 | In Liverpool , resistance was not as co-ordinated as it had been in Chicago a decade earlier , where the implementation of a quarter-hour telephone call-in system collapsed when all the police call boxes immediately developed mysterious malfunctions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Since it had been in power Labour had improved conditions , particularly through provision of milk to mothers and children ( SE 16 October 20 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The paganism of the eastern Angles over the next two or three years suggests that Eadwine 's influence in the region was no longer what it had been in Eorpwald 's lifetime . |
| 24 | Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |