Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 R — Replied to : An SSR has been generated in response to the SPR and the user who entered it has been informed , but the problem is not yet fully resolved .
2 R — Replied to An SSR has been generated in response to the SPR and the user who entered it has been informed , but the problem is not yet fully resolved .
3 R — Replied to — An SSR has been generated in response to the SPR and the user who entered it has been informed , but the problem is not yet fully resolved .
4 We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws .
5 When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite .
6 A man who momentarily left a computer game outside his house in Greenbank Road , Darlington , found it had been stolen when he returned .
7 The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day .
8 On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese .
9 And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted .
10 Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage .
11 I assumed it had been replaced , but in the circumstances … ’
12 For the purpose of his decision in Re Sigsworth , the trial judge assumed it to have been proved that the deceased , Mary Ann Sigsworth , had been murdered by her son ; and the question was whether the son was entitled to her estate as ‘ issue ’ under the Act .
13 Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ?
14 Nevertheless , at Verdun when the battle began it had been outmatched — in numbers alone — by nearly five to one .
15 They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them .
16 But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence .
17 I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er
18 Even with the latter part of this clause ( as drafted ) included it has been held that a landlord must still make full disclosure and not mislead the tenant nor will these words protect the landlord from an action for misrepresentation or misdescription .
19 An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort .
20 But he also knew it had been destroyed ; like Lebanon and the 40,000 who had died there over the previous 17 months .
21 She had n't known what it meant then , but now she knew it had been inscribed there just for her .
22 Offered to allow them a kind of autonomy , Coffin knew it had been meant originally as a Traffic Inquiry Unit .
23 A Free French administration was installed in Beirut and General de Gaulle quickly made it clear that he intended to keep his forces in Lebanon however much independence the country thought it had been given .
24 ‘ I thought it had been adjourned . ’
25 My these they were , my recollection may be wrong , I thought it had been put to the yesterday and was that it was shouted a number of times but , you were there , it was only shouted once .
26 ‘ My knee feels all right when I am running , bit it has been swelling up slightly afterwards .
27 She realised it had been cut .
28 PC Stephen Noble who attended the scene at the college annex told the coroner a check on the van revealed it had been stolen eleven days previously .
29 They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’
30 He was more concerned with prevention than repression ; and in any case by the time he wrote it had been shown that repression could be safely left in the hands of the Romans .
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