Example sentences of "[conj] it had be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 2 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 3 | If that trust is breached , as the Whigs held that it had been by James II , the people have the right to resist the government and replace it with another . |
| 4 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 5 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |
| 6 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 7 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 9 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 10 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 11 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 12 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 14 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 15 | In a painting such as the Female Figure , executed in the winter of 1910–11 , the subject is still much more easily recognizable than it had been in Picasso 's Cadaquès work , or even in the Portrait of Kahnweiler . |
| 16 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 17 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 18 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 19 | Since it had been in power Labour had improved conditions , particularly through provision of milk to mothers and children ( SE 16 October 20 ) . |
| 20 | The green staff worked miracles to get the course fit for play after it had been under water from Thursday night 's storms . |
| 21 | He stole the baggage after it had been through customs . ’ |
| 22 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 23 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 24 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 25 | The VP , however , remained the dominant force in Vanuatu politics as it had been since independence , and won all five by-elections in December 1989 caused by the resignations of the Sope faction after the leadership struggle . |
| 26 | Although the capacity was restricted to 25,000 , because of the redevelopment of Leeds ' home , the noise and expectancy from the crowd was as intense as it had been at Ibrox . |
| 27 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 28 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 29 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
| 30 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |