Example sentences of "it have [been] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 2 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 3 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 5 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 6 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 7 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 8 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 9 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 10 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 11 | He had achieved his aim of recreating the days of his ancestors , at least in part , but it had been at a great cost . |
| 12 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 13 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 14 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 15 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
| 16 | It looks as though it 's been in a few scrapes before . ’ |