Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it had been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 2 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 3 | In the official view , the use of the Swiss timer pointed clearly to Libya , not only because it had been supplied to its security agency in the first place , but because the PFLP — GC favoured a barometric-pressure triggering system for its Toshiba bombs . |
| 4 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 5 | Later , legs and a handle were added to convert the vessel into a sauce-boat , perhaps long after it had been made obsolete as a feeding vessel by the introduction of the first feeding bottles . |
| 6 | Here is a new dimension of the paranormal , the sound of a diesel motor coming from a train that appeared long after it had been scrapped . |
| 7 | Many of the university members of CASS and its boards were opposed to the principle , especially as it had been adopted before the arts and social studies had any real influence in the CNAA . |
| 8 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 9 | She 'd had to use , muscle tissue had wasted away where it had been stretched by the double hernia |
| 10 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 11 | Professor Hoskins was particularly interested in the Banbury Lane , largely because it had been identified as a prehistoric trackway by archaeologists in the 1950s , shortly before he wrote this book . |
| 12 | In this study the experimenters recorded the driver 's visual fixations and also asked the driver questions about each target just after it had been passed . |
| 13 | As in the case of the plating company , operators had grown familiar with a new set of moulding machinery soon after it had been installed . |
| 14 | The prediction is made more precise by making it equal to 1,290 days and then adding another 45 days ( 12.11–12 ) — to the despair of the modern interpreter , — but probably to the complete satisfaction of the contemporary reader who read the prophecy just when it had been fulfilled . |
| 15 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 16 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |
| 17 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |
| 18 | Those of the junior staff who could provide a satisfactory alibi were allowed home as soon as it had been checked ; one by one and with some reluctance at missing the excitements to come they went their way . |
| 19 | In the event M. 's solicitors received a copy of the committal order as soon as it had been sealed and , in addition , a copy was sent to the prison governor . |
| 20 | Leaving the lanterns in the passage they dragged the boat down over cloths to muffle the sound , and as soon as it had been launched and the oars shipped , Sir Gregory turned to Father Timothy . |
| 21 | Yet all incoming data was rejected as soon as it had been acted upon . |
| 22 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 23 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 24 | There had been a path there once but it had been ploughed up and incorporated into the field long ago . |
| 25 | In the late 1980s , the European steel industry had an enormous over-capacity , partly because it had been undercut by Korean , Japanese , and other producers in the Pacific , partly because of a wave of added Italian steel capacity in the 1970s . |
| 26 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 27 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 28 | Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark . |
| 29 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 30 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |