Example sentences of "it [verb] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 2 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 3 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 4 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 5 | More pointedly , such analyses are concerned with measuring the effects of wage movements ; the causes have to be sought in the actual , real-world process of industrial relations — an environment as uncongenial to economists as it has been to many industrial managers . |
| 6 | We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again , lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery . |
| 7 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 8 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 9 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 10 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 11 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 12 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has been like that all through the history of the place . |
| 15 | It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’ |
| 16 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 17 | may it have been to some such vestibule , |
| 18 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 19 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 20 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 21 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 22 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 23 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 24 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 25 | Oh Ven , she wanted to cry — it had been like that for him too ! |
| 26 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 27 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 28 | It had been like this last night . |
| 29 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 30 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |