Example sentences of "then it [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 2 | Since then it had been discovered that one could be a parachutist and live . |
| 3 | Then it had been filled again , but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land . |
| 4 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 5 | Since then it 's been turned into at least five TV series varying in length from one to nine parts . |
| 6 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 7 | Since then it 's been used by Hereford and Worcester County Council to teach children sailing . |
| 8 | I think that since then it has been damaging . ’ |
| 9 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 10 | The last wolf was shot in west Germany as far back as 1846 and since then it has been registered as extinct . |
| 11 | Its present form dates from the 1920s and since then it has been tested and explored rigorously ( though not without problems ) . |
| 12 | Since then it has been adapted and we now use phase A as a warm up for the steeplechase and phase C as a ‘ let down ’ after the steeplechase . |
| 13 | Since then it has been offered on a limited basis in Germany and as a routine service in Lyons , France , and Antwerp , Belgium . |
| 14 | Since then it has been reported that Soviet television has covered the election of a factory director by delegates representing the workforce of 13,000 . |