Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 2 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 3 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 4 | They explained that the meeting was cancelled and everyone dispersed as it had been confirmed that the government was about to arrest all strike leaders . |
| 5 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 6 | There was some confusion in court as to whether a private prosecution can be withdrawn once it has been decided that there is a case to answer . |
| 7 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 8 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 9 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 10 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 11 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 12 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 13 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 14 | He appears to have maintained in the Court of Session that the provisions of that Act should not be applied because it had been passed without his having had notice as required by Standing Orders … |
| 15 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 16 | The area around the crack should be thoroughly cleaned and the two-part resin filler applied after it has been mixed up in accordance with the instructions . |
| 17 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 18 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 19 | It is important that this is done immediately , as the master disk can not be copied once it has been used . |
| 20 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 21 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 22 | She would have been soaked if it had been water . |
| 23 | ( d ) a delivery after transfer , where the requested item proves to be already on the reserve shelf of another reader , but can be supplied after it has been transferred from that reader to the more recent applicant . |
| 24 | Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication . |
| 25 | In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law . |
| 26 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 27 | Balsa wood can also be smoked after it has been broken into little pieces , but some say it is even less rewarding than banana skins . |
| 28 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 29 | The standard method of recovery must be taught because it has been proven to be effective during testing . |
| 30 | A term is always to be regarded as not individually negotiated where it has been drafted in advance and the consumer has therefore not been able to influence the substance of the term , particularly in the context of a pre-formulated standard contract . |