Example sentences of "[subord] it had been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it had been a rest home for British Telecom , alterations were necessary to provide the ten individual bed sitting rooms and the Housekeepers flat , whilst at the same time some safety improvements were needed to meet the Fire Officer 's regulations . |
| 2 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 3 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 4 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 5 | He had assumed they would all enter medicine as he had , so it had been a shock when Jack had chosen law . |
| 6 | Once it had been a railway shed , indeed the tracks were still in it , later , in a period when Gilbey 's Gin had used the building as a warehouse , a balcony had been added , which was only wide enough to take one person . |
| 7 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 8 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 9 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 10 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 11 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 12 | If it had been a man and woman relationship you would think that was understandable but we are n't expected to have feelings ; if we do they 're a joke . ’ |
| 13 | Rebecque suddenly sneezed again and , as if it had been a word of command , the French batteries resumed their cannonade . |
| 14 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 15 | If it had been a girl , Drew wanted to call her Chukka . |
| 16 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 17 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 18 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ A train pulled in just 15 seconds after the blast if it had been a bit earlier then the casualties would have been a hell of a lot worse , ’ said eye-witness Andy Anderson , a Financial Times journalist . |
| 20 | Er , see if it had been a bit more local it would n't |
| 21 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 22 | I think if it had been a ghost , if the girl had been transparent and headless , I might have been less astonished . |
| 23 | He rammed in the pitch , keeping his balance in the tossing pirogue , as only he could , he with his funambulist 's antennae , who might have scaled the ship on a free-floating ladder if it had been a parade , a feast , a time of play and rejoicing . |
| 24 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 25 | If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah-ha , ’ he started confidently , ‘ that would only happen if it had been a defenestration . |
| 27 | If it had been a brothel or a gaming club Mahmoud would n't have hesitated . |
| 28 | ‘ If it had been a car bomb , it would have blown in those windows . ’ |
| 29 | The blow rattled the plane as if it had been a car bouncing through a pot-hole . |
| 30 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |