Sentence examples for it was has been from inspiring English sources

His soul, such as it was, has been excised.

But that achievement, laudable though it was, has been surpassed.

It was has been detected that students were not very conscious of basic ecological events such as matter cycle and environmental changes such as unforestration into ecosystem.

But his confession, if that is what it was, has been upheld three times by Mexican courts, where statements extracted by torture are legally admissible.

I mean, if you look at it logically, we know that the sport's in a better place now than it was, has been, ever, I think, for the last 20, 30 years".

Yet Iran's reputation — such as it was — has been damaged, especially among Sunni Arabs, as it is seen as propping up a regime trying to crush a mostly Sunni opposition.

But the damage, small as it was, had been done.

The debt, if that is what it was, had been repaid with interest.

Which it was, having been prematurely ignited by an over-eager squaddie.

The university, such as it was, had been known as "Florida Agricultural College" until 1903.

It is has been a wrenching series of adjustments.