Example sentences of "[adj] it had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bristol University Student Union declined to join the protest , afraid it had been hijacked by extremists . |
| 2 | CD describes a ‘ piece of water in the midst ’ but although there was originally a fountain there , by 1780 it had been displaced by the plinth of the present statue of William III added in 1808 , BR 70 . |
| 3 | It was also a strategic move towards the long-term goal of gaining international recognition for its struggle , and as such it had been resisted steadfastly by Ramos 's predecessors . |
| 4 | In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 . |
| 5 | ‘ The boys said the bed was rumpled , but they were n't convinced it had been slept in . |
| 6 | In 1377 the tax had been levied at 4d. a head , in 1379 it had been graduated and in December 1380 Parliament granted a further tax at 1s. a head , and although suggestions were made that the rich should help the poor to meet this heavy burden , one suspects that these were largely unheeded . |
| 7 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |
| 8 | Meanwhile on Aug. 26 it had been announced that , with Gorbachev 's agreement , Silayev had transferred the functions of several USSR ministries and two central banks to the control of the relevant RSFSR ministers . |
| 9 | At the time of the Arab invasion in 639 the population has been estimated at between 20 and 30 million , but when Napoleon invaded the decaying Ottoman Egypt in 1798 it had been reduced to some two and a half million . |
| 10 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |
| 11 | ‘ They must have found it , because it was gone the day after — probably straight into the oven because it was obvious it had been killed , not just died But to this day they do n't know how . ’ |
| 12 | Whatever the origin of the revolt , by early 1183 it had been transformed into a struggle to make him Duke of Aquitaine in place of the " tyrannical " Richard . |
| 13 | Although as long ago as the early 1970s it had been shown that protein synthesis inhibitors were without effect on habituation and sensitization , it was not until the mid-1980s that Kandel turned his attention to the longer-term cellular processes . |
| 14 | On May 11 it had been announced that a US task force including helicopters , amphibious landing ships and construction workers would be sent to help with disaster relief operations . |
| 15 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 16 | On May 3 it had been reported that Sawyer 's interim government , appointed on April 19 , was ready to resign , apparently as a preliminary to offering the NPFL a power-sharing arrangement ; no more was heard of this proposal , however . |
| 17 | On Nov. 3 it had been reported that a US nuclear-powered submarine , the Topeka , had entered the Gulf in a move intended to underline US concern over the imminent delivery of the first of two Kilo class Russian diesel submarines to the Iranian port of Banda Abbas [ see p. 39122 ] , with a third said to be on option . |
| 18 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 19 | By 1845 it had been discovered that eggs were ejected spontaneously but this largely failed to affect existing views of sexuality . |
| 20 | On Jan. 25 it had been announced that 50,000 tonnes of cereals supplied as famine relief by the EC would be distributed in Sudan through Danish and UK relief agencies . |
| 21 | She thought at first it had been shot . |
| 22 | On May 1 it had been reported that the Colombian government was willing to talk with the guerrillas , after three representatives of the two groups within the CNGSB ( the FARC and the ELN — see p. 38001 ) had occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Bogotá seeking diplomatic asylum . |
| 23 | On Oct. 1 it had been reported that the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) was to be known as the National Council of the Slovak Republic . |
| 24 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 25 | Since 1971 it had been administered jointly by Iran and the UAE , with offshore oil revenues shared between Iran and the rulers of the Sharjah emirate . |
| 26 | Prior to that it had been viewed in terms of an individual 's placatory act of redemption to the deity ( or deities ) and later as a rite of initiation into the tribe , so marking the male 's passage firstly to ordinary , profane existence and secondly to full , public and potentially active membership of society . |
| 27 | By 1721 it had been abolished as useless . |
| 28 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 29 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |
| 30 | On July 15 it had been reported that the new Cabinet had drafted 35 pieces of legislation for immediate consideration by the new Congress . |