Example sentences of "it had [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before .
5 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 .
6 Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said .
7 Religiously , it had been reported the Young Group made £1.1m profit in 1990 .
8 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 .
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