Example sentences of "it had be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 2 | It had been operating a Ro-Ro service from inside the locks and undoubtedly was responsible for the major part of the heavy goods vehicle traffic . |
| 3 | It had been raised a year earlier at a residential conference for Wirral secondary heads with the sugestion that schools should attempt accreditation under BS 5750 . |
| 4 | As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 per cent growth for 1991 . |
| 5 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 6 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 7 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 8 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 9 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 10 | His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him . |
| 11 | It is hard to say how directly the King reminded the Company that it was doing well because it had been granted a monopoly of the English market . |
| 12 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 13 | For 1992 , it had been renamed the Day of the Defenders of the [ unspecified ] Homeland . |
| 14 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 15 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 16 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 17 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 18 | It had been thought no money would be forthcoming , but the new grant will be from a different department within the SAC , it emerged yesterday . |
| 19 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 20 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 21 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 22 | Propagandists could always argue that the fact that so many misfortunes had befallen England since the Revolution confirmed how wrong it had been to dethrone the rightful sovereign . |
| 23 | With the Appeal Board clearing Durie it had been expected the caution would be expunged . |
| 24 | She walked on , wondering whose decision it had been to buy a retirement home in such an isolated spot . |
| 25 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 26 | Strange , how easy it had been to accept the harshness of the training depot and the lessons she had learned . |
| 27 | If it had been spinning a bit more , it would of kept on . |
| 28 | He did n't tell her how difficult it had been to withstand the pain they inflicted on him . |
| 29 | Religiously , it had been reported the Young Group made £1.1m profit in 1990 . |
| 30 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |