Example sentences of "it [verb] been by " in BNC.
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| 1 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 2 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 3 | If that trust is breached , as the Whigs held that it had been by James II , the people have the right to resist the government and replace it with another . |
| 4 | Such an approach was repudiated by Harold Macmillan , the then Prime Minister , when we applied to join the Community , as it had been by Winston Churchill before that . |
| 5 | The Brotherhood was suppressed by Nasser when he came to power in the 1950s , as it had been by his predecessors . |
| 6 | because you cos it 's been by your face like , the back 's still wet . |