Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 2 | A mahogany bookcase and the books it contained was left to Anne ‘ with gratitude for our long friendship ’ and a Sheraton occasional table to ‘ our good neighbour Mrs Fitzgerald ’ . |
| 3 | What small political influence it possessed was confined to the immediate post-war years of social tension , inflation and unemployment . |
| 4 | Prior to the 1980 Act it had been observed that the law had been ‘ heavily weighed in favour of the local education authorities and schools with parents having few rights ( although many duties ) and little say in the decision-making process ’ . |
| 5 | In January it had been announced that the country 's global trade surplus for 1991 had risen to $78,230 million , a 50 per cent increase on the $52,150 million recorded in 1990 . |
| 6 | At the conference on 21 January it had been agreed that the men of the King of France should wear red crosses , the men of the King of England white crosses and the men of the Count of Flanders green crosses . |
| 7 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 8 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 9 | During the war it had been stored ( for safety ! ) in the crypt of St Paul 's Cathedral , where it suffered from the effects of high explosive . |
| 10 | Since the new hospital had not been large enough from the moment it had been built , prefabricated huts bred fissiparously , and straggled now under the shadow of the main building . |
| 11 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 12 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 13 | Normally the building was the repair shop and garage for thirty AMX-10 battle tanks , but for this evening it had been converted into a temporary church with the aid of some camouflage nets , 300 chairs and a platform where a nativity play would be staged , and from which the Priest would read out the lesson . |
| 14 | At the summer Examination it had been suggested that |
| 15 | But when he came into the picture it had been cast and the script had been done , and he did bring about a lot of changes . |
| 16 | In advance of the meeting it had been anticipated that Iran would seek a lower overall quota , in the region of 22,000,000 bpd , to drive prices up to nearer $25 per barrel . |
| 17 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 18 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 19 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 20 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 21 | Any sound it made was lost in the green murk . |
| 22 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 23 | Ordinary folk of the revolution should not have those things it had been decided . |
| 24 | s It had been argued , on Canon Oestreicher 's behalf that Cheney v. |
| 25 | It comprised some of the very best of the Black-Earth belt , but after the Revolution it had been trampled over first by the Red Army advancing on Kiev from Kharkov , then by the German 20th Army Corps , and later by ruthless and bloodthirsty ‘ Green ’ armies . |
| 26 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | The day after the ambulance took Ma away , the rotary drier vanished ; on the Sunday it had been loaded with sheets ( I had taken them down myself . |
| 28 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 29 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 30 | In the area of taxation it had been established by the time of Edward I that direct taxes could only be levied with the consent of Parliament . |