Example sentences of "[adj] it had be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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31 In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ .
32 Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words .
33 Prior to the announcement of the additional two it had been estimated that the total capital cost of the 26 new prisons would be 870 million at an average cost per place of 69,200 .
34 However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth .
35 In 1936 it had been decided to relay the Lytham Road track , despite considerable opposition in the Council .
36 258 it had been held that a request for money in such circumstances did constitute an offence under the Larceny Act 1916 , s.29(1) ( i ) .
37 In 1915 it had been widened to seven yards , just large enough for an up- and down-column of trucks .
38 Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 .
39 However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont .
40 Third , and perhaps most interesting from the point of view of cellular analogies to memory , by the early 1980s it had been shown that a form of associative LTP is possible .
41 Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level .
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