Example sentences of "[subord] it had [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 2 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 3 | This system was formalised in the year 802 , although it had been operational in early forms during the preceding years of his reign . |
| 4 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 5 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 6 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 8 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 9 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 10 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 11 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 12 | Faced with a deepening penal crisis on the one hand , and continuing intransigence from sentencers on the other , there was growing pressure throughout the 1990s from a broad constituency — comprising not only penal reformers but also senior civil servants , prison visitors , and prison governors — for the government to accept the need for more effective techniques for the control of sentencing discretion than it had been prepared to concede in the past . |
| 13 | Cattle stealing was more sensitive to economic fluctuations in the twentieth century than it had been earlier . |
| 14 | The sky was now brighter than it had been earlier in the evening . |
| 15 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 16 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 17 | Since he , Fedorov , was the only one who yet realized the danger , they were spying on him , spreading lies and persecuting him , so it had been necessary to kill some of them . |
| 18 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 19 | There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough . |
| 20 | If it had been one of the local men , he explained to Sandison , there would have been no problem , but Maidstone was another matter . |
| 21 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 22 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 23 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 24 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 25 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 26 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 27 | The wall opposite the sink and the window was covered with an oak dresser , very old and probably valuable , if it had been possible to remove it from the wall without its collapse , and the original row of bells still hung over the door each with its Gothic script ; drawing room , dining room , study , nursery . |
| 28 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 29 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 30 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |