Example sentences of "[noun] it had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement by the provisional government of Eritrea on Aug. 1 said that over 82,000 prisoners of war and former government officials , and over 43,000 of their relatives , had been repatriated from Eritrea ; it said that in view of severe food shortages it had been impossible to feed them . |
| 2 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 3 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 4 | Until Monday it had been peaceful . |
| 5 | Up to this point it had been fine because there had been no money . |
| 6 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 7 | China itself was riven with rebellion , and the ruling Qing dynasty was in decline , unable to withstand the depredations of Western traders and governments or to give the leadership it had been able to offer in former times . |
| 8 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 9 | The certain mystique it had was much more than just Cowboys and Indians on television . |
| 10 | Although the majority of the fly seems to be no less dead than a dodo , one side of it seems to be the intact creature it had been 30 seconds earlier . |
| 11 | For the most part it had been easier than she had expected . |
| 12 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 13 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 14 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 15 | From that first introduction it had been all-out war . |
| 16 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 17 | The IIIrd and IVth Republics in France collapsed because of their chronic instability : the average life of a cabinet in the IVth Republic was less than seven months , while under the IIIrd Republic it had been nine . |
| 18 | At the time it had been easy enough to make the pledge he had demanded , since she had n't been able to imagine a situation where she would ever want to attack anyone . |
| 19 | On stormy nights it had been exhilarating to fly in the teeth of the wind . |
| 20 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 21 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 22 | With Tony it had been easy to make facile decisions about ‘ waiting for marriage ’ . |