Example sentences of "it had been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 per cent growth for 1991 . |
| 2 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 3 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 4 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 5 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 6 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 7 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 8 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 9 | Propagandists could always argue that the fact that so many misfortunes had befallen England since the Revolution confirmed how wrong it had been to dethrone the rightful sovereign . |
| 10 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 11 | Religiously , it had been reported the Young Group made £1.1m profit in 1990 . |
| 12 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 13 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |