Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 2 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 3 | It had been hand-delivered to Kensington Palace and then carefully placed on top of all Diana 's other mail . |
| 4 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 5 | And if it had been obvious to Jean then Silas would notice it in two seconds or less . |
| 6 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |