Example sentences of "it been [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years .
2 There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years .
3 Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer .
4 Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success .
5 Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under .
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