Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] it [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 2 | Winter had closed the eyelids of the land and the snow that covered it was ill-fitting and dingy like a second-hand shroud . |
| 3 | The new industrial age presented a vision of hell , of ‘ dark Satanic mills ’ , and the science that supported it was cold , objectified . |
| 4 | There again , it 's gon na be , it 's something like , that said it was forty four days and suddenly I thought , bugger that ! |
| 5 | He walked free after embarrassing the RSPCA by producing a book written by one of its own experts that said it was safe to leave fish home alone for up to two weeks . |
| 6 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 7 | Question : What do you say to suggestions made by the court that had it been any other man you would have simply warned them ? |