Example sentences of "it had [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 2 | Sponsored by the Russian Federation government and staffed largely by defectors from Soviet central television , it had been given air time totalling just over six hours a day on Soviet television 's second channel [ for February 1991 curbs on Radio Russia see p. 38015 ] . |
| 3 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 4 | It had been assisting people over the wall longer than anyone could remember . |
| 5 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 6 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |
| 7 | It had been decided sherry would be handled by McGee , supper by them both , port by McGee and coffee by them both . |
| 8 | as if it had been swallowed up . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish it had been done months ago but Stuart Pascoe felt it was unnecessary . |
| 10 | When it had been obtained program crashes occurred due to triggering of the consistency check traps . |
| 11 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had and it had been kept dark . |
| 13 | It had originally occupied a position at Sidi Bel Abbe s , but when the Legion left Algeria it had been dismantled stone by stone and brought to its present resting place at Aubagne . |
| 14 | To it had been hammered rolls of heavy-gauge chicken wire . |
| 15 | Springfield , however , had surprised Grant by replying that this would not be necessary as ‘ it had been taken care of . ’ |
| 16 | It had been losing money for 3 years . |
| 17 | It was a fabled street , but for him it had been forbidden territory . |
| 18 | It had been suggested John McClacklan , owner of the scrap yard at the old swimming baths , Eldon , near Bishop Auckland , should increase the height of his perimeter wall . |
| 19 | It had been feared compensation would be less than £100,000 each , under the Carriage By Air Act . |
| 20 | Mr Stewart said it had been feared haematology in-patients would have to share a general medical ward while undergoing treatment in Darlington . |
| 21 | It had been found shot in Oxfordshire and X rays revealed four pellets of lead . |