Example sentences of "it had [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justice must be seen to be done , however , and when it had been seen to be done , the miscreants were cheered by a crowd assembled outside the court . |
| 2 | It had been rumoured to be carrying Nazi treasures or secrets , but survivors from the German submarine crew doubt whether any major treasure will be discovered . |
| 3 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 4 | This sudden attack , coming from they knew not where had been shattering , as no doubt it had been meant to be . |
| 5 | Today we might say that it had been shown to be different from itself . |
| 6 | In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis . |
| 7 | The defendants argued that the proviso could not be severed and that as it had been found to be an unreasonable restraint of trade the whole of the clause was void . |