Example sentences of "it had [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't been a night they had lived through ; it had been the Dark Ages — all seven centuries of them , with wars and oppressions , visions and turbulences . |
| 2 | On their walk back it had been the dark shadows she 'd found unnerving . |
| 3 | If it had been the following week with school holidays but I , I do think you 'd be very tired the next day . |
| 4 | Ever since the post-war beginnings of the atomic dream , it had been the received wisdom that nuclear power was an unquenchable , reliable and , above all , cheap source of electricity . |
| 5 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 6 | It had been the only Atlantic refuge available to the battleship , Tirpitz . |
| 7 | It had been the great achievement of the geologists to explain how , given enough time , the operation of exactly the same forces visible today could explain the enormous variety of what could be observed on the inanimate earth , past and present . |
| 8 | She had told no one at all but it had been the great dream of her life to go to Spain , the real Spain . |
| 9 | It had been the early evening of the day after polling day , 1983 . |
| 10 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 11 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 12 | It had been the right advice — Colonel Windsor knew it was — and Tubby had promised to take it . |
| 13 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 14 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 15 | Indeed , it had been the major objection to Lamarck 's theory and to Vestiges that man was treated as an animal ; and that if such a view gained currency , people would start to behave like animals . |
| 16 | A second independent miners ' congress , held in Donetsk ( Ukraine ) , ended with a declaration on Oct. 26 that it had been the founding congress of an independent miners ' trade union . |
| 17 | It was all there , just as it had been the previous night : the exhilaration , the mounting excitement , the warm , wonderful sensation of not being isolated and lonely . |
| 18 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 19 | At the second meeting of the judges , on Thursday , 21 st May , the atmosphere seems to have been very different to what it had been the previous week . |
| 20 | It had been the Royal Air Force base in the province since the early part of the century , but took on the role of Ulster 's principal airport when the Nutt 's Corner aerodrome was handed over . |
| 21 | Some mental quirk had had her jumping — wham , bam ! — to an instinctive conclusion , but it had been the wrong conclusion . |
| 22 | ‘ What if it had been the wrong house ? ’ |