Example sentences of "[adv] it had be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 2 | Perhaps it had been crazy , but loyalty to her aunt and uncle had made it impossible to save herself by telling the truth . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 4 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 5 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 6 | Such shops , offering coordinated fabrics and paper , had never before existed in France ; hitherto it had been possible to hire an interior decorator who would go into a home and suggest exclusive fabrics at exorbitant prices . |
| 7 | By 1829 , the year of Owen 's return from America , the organisation by John Doherty of workers in cotton spinning into his Grand National Union of the United Kingdom had marked an attempt to make trade union structure national , whereas hitherto it had been local . |
| 8 | But , somehow it had been different , his normal feeling of elation and contempt had turned to panic . |
| 9 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 10 | Probably it had been foolish to try to do so . |
| 11 | Until now it had been enough to produce smocks , nightdresses and long dresses in cotton for stores which would carry supplementary ranges by other manufacturers in different departments . |
| 12 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 13 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
| 14 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 15 | Until a few years ago it had been clear that the courts would be prepared in such situations to exhibit a marked degree of ‘ tenderness ’ towards wives in such cases , greater tenderness in fact than would be applied to any other third party surety . |
| 16 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 17 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 18 | In 1974 there were 1.4 regular whole-time workers for every full-time holding ; ten years earlier it had been 2.1 . |
| 19 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 20 | Originally there had stood a medieval castle alone , then it had been Neo-Gothicized and French Châteaued a bit in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | At least it had been simpler . |
| 22 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 23 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 24 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |
| 25 | Jacobitism 's main base was in the north-east lowlands , an area where it had been difficult to insert Presbyterian ministers after the Glorious Revolution , and where Stuart loyalism continued to be nurtured by an active episcopalian clergy . |
| 26 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 27 | Why it had been irresistible , Maud was not rationally sure . |
| 28 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |