Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earthenwares it produced were marked in several ways . |
| 2 | Any noise it made was lost in the wind . |
| 3 | Any sound it made was lost in the green murk . |
| 4 | It might be considered surprising that the firm refused to supply British Rail with a copy of its report prior to publication , even though much of the information it used was obtained in its capacity as consulting engineers to the BR board in relation to a planning appeal for a location to the north end of the King 's Cross site . |
| 5 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 6 | For example , if the government alleges that what it did was done in the interests of national security and the court accepts this , the aggrieved party 's action will simply be dismissed . |
| 7 | The Royal College of Physicians attacked Mrs Bottomley 's failure to reach firm decisions on the four teaching hospitals under threat , which it said were left in limbo . |
| 8 | It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry . |
| 9 | Mr Johnson recorded an open verdict because it was not clear whether Mr Venables took the ecstasy himself , whether it had been placed in his drink or how many tablets he had taken . |
| 10 | He had to belly-land his aircraft on return to land , as it had been damaged in the starboard engine and undercarriage ! |
| 11 | It had been damaged in an accident at the locomotive works where he had been employed in his youth . |
| 12 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 13 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 14 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 15 | The match could n't have been more of a thriller if it had been written in Hollywood . |
| 16 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 17 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
| 18 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
| 19 | It was a large , tall , four storeyed building , on one of the steep hillsides of Highgate ; it had been built in 1720 , but was deceptively flanked by scrappy houses and miscellaneous buildings of mixed and later dates , so that its lonely eminence had an air of somewhat tragic survival . |
| 20 | It had been built in the depression of 1870 — when most villagers were out of work — by the Countess of Saracen , whose birthday was still celebrated , and a mass said for her soul in the local Church of St Peter . |
| 21 | It had been built in the 1860s , to take advantage of the sudden influx of visitors provided by the arrival of the London , Chatham and Dover Railway at Broadstairs . |
| 22 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 23 | It had been raised in international conferences in the late 1960s but was first officially presented by a Malaysian diplomat in April 1970 at the preparatory meeting of the non-aligned states in Dar-es-Salaam . |
| 24 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 25 | Then back to the shop , with Lucy now taking the money from her pinafore pocket where it had been tied in her handkerchief , and paying for the corn ; to go on her way feeling quite a little woman of the world . |
| 26 | The court held that the exemption clause , though it had been incorporated in the auction sales , had not been incorporated in the later sale by private treaty . |
| 27 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 28 | This residue has no doubt lost the shape of dividends , share warrants or the like but so would the entire income of the fund if it had been lodged in the same way with the Respondent 's bankers . |
| 29 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 30 | Alders and willows and rich grass and wild rose briars described a great , smooth horseshoe shape that was still hollowed gently into the green earth , with such authority that it had been acknowledged in perpetuity as a natural boundary , and a single large field hemmed within it . |