Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] it had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 2 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 3 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 4 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 5 | At a civic reception that evening Chapman announced that the club would not be satisfied until it had won the League Championship . |
| 6 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
| 7 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 8 | Such a move would have been legitimate if it had offered the possibility of new kinds of experimental tests , perhaps leading to the discovery of some unexpected feature of the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 9 | However the wealth may have been produced it is evident that it had created a rich landowning class . |
| 10 | When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community . |
| 11 | The college 's principal , Professor Norman Gower , said he was sad that it had to sell but added : ‘ The cost of preserving Thomas Holloway 's main benefaction left us with no alternative . |
| 12 | The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ . |
| 13 | It was cold inside but the friar was pleased that it had lost its musty smell . |
| 14 | It was his nickname for her ; he had started calling her that when she was small and it had stuck even though she was now a respectable five-feet-seven . |
| 15 | But if Mansell was unhappy with life in general before the race had started , he was furious after it had ended . |
| 16 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |
| 17 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 18 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |