Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had previously been decided that the first landing should be away on the metalled runway of Duxford or Cambridge . |
| 2 | It had previously been estimated that £40,000 could be saved ; the Committee decided that this was unrealistic , and reduced the estimate to £25,000 . |
| 3 | It had previously been estimated that the programme would allow 100,000-170,000 people who had arrived in Spain before May 15 , 1991 , to regularize their status . |
| 4 | It had previously been considered that the feature of the second oral tentacle pore arising outside the mouth was distinctive enough to warrant raising the Ophiurinae to familial rank ( Paterson , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals . |
| 6 | It had already been announced that the East German SPD would merge with its West German counterpart in September , and that the two Christian Democratic Unions would merge in October . |
| 7 | It had already been arranged that Eric and Daphne Lovell would drive Rose to her destination before going on to their own and would pick her up later for the return trip . |
| 8 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 9 | She laughed him off , saying he was becoming obsessed with that MP and it had already been noticed that his column carried far too many stories about him . |
| 10 | Well we do or we 'd , it had already been envisaged that er the jaguars would run out at er roughly that time . |
| 11 | It had also been hoped that midfielder Michael Thomas would play this week but the former Arsenal midfielder has suffered a reaction to his Achilles problem and his comeback has been delayed . |
| 12 | It had also been said that his father had been employed there . |
| 13 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 14 | She was glad to get away for a change of scene , as it had just been confirmed that Steve had been killed , and her place was taken by Nancy , a tall , dark Scots girl , who fitted into the Met team very well . |
| 15 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 16 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |
| 17 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 18 | It had never been admitted that Michael Holly , small-time engineer , was anything other than a falsely-accused business representative on lawful business in the Soviet capital . |
| 19 | The Lord President referred to the fact that it had never been suggested that trustees were not assessable under the old Schedule A or under Schedule B or Schedule D. |
| 20 | It had long been believed that he who held the Tower , held London in the palm of his hand . |
| 21 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 22 | Despite this virtual unanimity of opinion 104 it had long been accepted that there were certain exceptions to the rule . |
| 23 | In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package . |
| 24 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 25 | What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this . |
| 26 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 27 | However , even before the Act of 1989 made the distinction clear for all to see , it had long been recognised that wardship was only machinery and that the court 's inherent jurisdiction could be exercised whether or not the child was a ward : see , for example , In re L. ( An Infant ) [ 1968 ] P. 119 , 157 . |
| 28 | It had long been argued that the maintenance of a low level of unemployment should be the guiding principle of a government 's economic policy . |
| 29 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 30 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |