Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , so long as the net inflow of foreign exchange deposits is positive , as it has been up to now , there is no net withdrawal of funds from the National Bank . |
| 2 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 3 | As we know , the FORM , or pattern shaping , is an integral part of the Electronic E-6000 , but it has been around on Passap System machines as the Form Computer Program for ten years or so , and to many knitters it is still surrounded by mystery and suspicion . |
| 4 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 5 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 6 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 7 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 8 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 9 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 10 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 11 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 12 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 13 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 14 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 15 | If it had been up to me , you 'd have one police communication room , not two , because I 've worked in operations control , and you want to have a single control room for your authority , if any other system is less efficient than that . |
| 16 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 17 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 18 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 19 | Maybe the flight would be aborted , as it had been back in January . |
| 20 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 21 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 22 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 23 | He put another one and it 's been on since then ! |
| 24 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 25 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 26 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 27 | coach and if it comes out like Helen and Pete like that and they 're , they 're gone and the others have n't , no wonder it 's been up on your wall |
| 28 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 29 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 30 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |