Example sentences of "[subord] it had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 2 | Before departing , we added more tape to the top of the fuselage , where it had come loose . |
| 3 | Outstanding is the black chalk and charcoal head by Piero , once in the collection of John Skippe and spotted by Ms Ganz in a private collection where it had lain unattributed for the past thirty-five years . |
| 4 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 5 | Although it had demanded such changes , the opposition criticized the government 's alleged failure to consult adequately , with PDS members boycotting the session at which the legislation was approved . |
| 6 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 7 | Such an imaginative concept , involving the realisation that the earth is a dynamic planet , made geology a much more attractive and stimulating subject than it had seemed earlier , and many more graduates wanted to pursue careers in such an exciting field . |
| 8 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 9 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 10 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |
| 11 | Once it had achieved this , if it was to go any further it would have to arouse their interest . |
| 12 | The very thing for which the bourgeoisie strove , profit , ceased to be an adequate motivation once it had brought sufficient wealth . |
| 13 | Only once it had looked real : when we flew back one night from a blazing Hamm at twenty feet in the moonlight . |
| 14 | There remains the question whether , as the applicant contends , the only proper course for the district judge was to postpone the trials of the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters until after the conclusion of the B.M.F.L. trial , or at least postpone them until it had become clear whether , and if so when and in what shape , the B.M.F.L. case would proceed . |
| 15 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 16 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |
| 17 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 18 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 19 | If it had done nine thousand five hundred miles , how much would we take off ? hey ? |
| 20 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 21 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 22 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 23 | If it had become axiomatic that the author ( or ‘ scriptor ’ in Ricardou 's terminology ) had become decentred and that the novel could not represent any psychological or social reality , then the origins of a text could only be found in the self-generating aspect of language itself . |
| 24 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 25 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 26 | If it had stopped innovating , the match would then be equal . |
| 27 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 28 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 29 | ‘ Dad , what if it had gone rotten ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Even if it had gone rotten . ’ |