Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 5 | It was cold inside but the friar was pleased that it had lost its musty smell . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unless it was small and it 's grown ! |
| 8 | But if Mansell was unhappy with life in general before the race had started , he was furious after it had ended . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |