Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 2 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 3 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 4 | Since then it 's been tough going . |
| 5 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed it has been proposed thatany increase in permeability in patients with inflammatory bowel disease results from polymorphonuclear transmigration through the intestinal mucosa . |