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 blackest day of the war when the government announced the rationing of tea . |
| 10 | Perdita listened to her mother grinding gears and going on and on and on about how marvellously Perdita had played and how it had been the proudest moment of her life , and how everyone from Rupert to Brigadier Canford said what a great future she had and Drew this and Drew that . |
| 11 | It had been the early evening of the day after polling day , 1983 . |
| 12 | It had been the best day yet . |
| 13 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 14 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 15 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 16 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 17 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 18 | It had been the right advice — Colonel Windsor knew it was — and Tubby had promised to take it . |
| 19 | It had been the merest afterthought . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 21 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It had been the same sum for years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |
| 30 | 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 . |