Example sentences of "it had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , in its home area of Macedonia it had been replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet , named after Cyril , even though he probably played no direct part in its development . |
| 2 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 3 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 4 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 5 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 6 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 7 | Her grey hair had a dusty look , as though it had been powdered like a flunkey 's wig . |
| 8 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 9 | It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry . |
| 10 | It had been placed on the right-hand side of the green , guarded by two bunkers . |
| 11 | Mr Johnson recorded an open verdict because it was not clear whether Mr Venables took the ecstasy himself , whether it had been placed in his drink or how many tablets he had taken . |
| 12 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |
| 13 | Mr Roberts said the company 's performance during the year was sound , particularly as it had been achieved without any significant price increases . |
| 14 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |
| 15 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |
| 16 | He had to belly-land his aircraft on return to land , as it had been damaged in the starboard engine and undercarriage ! |
| 17 | It had been damaged in an accident at the locomotive works where he had been employed in his youth . |
| 18 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 19 | We had an expensive meal and tried to get drunk , but the evening had a forced feel to it as though it had been written on Orders that we would , compulsorily , enjoy ourselves . |
| 20 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 21 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 22 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 23 | The teacher , by now worn down by Mrs Singh 's refusal to accept Jeetinder 's limitations , told her that it had been written by ‘ a highly intelligent girl ’ . |
| 24 | Well when when it was first read by erm it was mentioned that it had been written by the Green Party by radio four and the Guardian and the Independent . |
| 25 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 26 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 27 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 28 | The match could n't have been more of a thriller if it had been written in Hollywood . |
| 29 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |
| 30 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |