Example sentences of "it had [be] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 2 | It had been discovered that fraudulent activities amongst these members was often associated with their other business dealings . |
| 3 | For some time , it had been recognised that significant numbers of promising young players were being lost to the game by a lack of a smooth transition from school to senior club . |
| 4 | Jackie Drake was denied Invalid Care Allowance because it had been assumed that married women did n't need to work . |
| 5 | It had been assumed that increased rehabilitation input would achieve the ‘ big move ’ out of hospital and the restoration of substantial numbers of patients to some moderate state of well-being . |
| 6 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 7 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 8 | Our own experiences with walking were very quickly confirmed when we read in Time magazine , November 1989 , that after the most detailed fitness study ever carried out by the Aerobics Institute in America , it had been established that moderate exercise can have all the beneficial effects that are normally associated with hard ‘ no pain , no gain' exercising ( see Table 2 ) . |