Example sentences of "of it [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 2 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 3 | There had been something of a reproof in that letter , even though no word of it had been written openly . |
| 4 | The prosecution was allowed to sum up its evidence in secret hearing as part of it had been given in camera . |
| 5 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 6 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
| 7 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |
| 8 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 9 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 10 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 11 | Indeed she did , for having sacrificed herself for this damnable dress material it was no more than commonsense to make certain that no part of it had been damaged or soiled , that she could go to Miss Dallam presently , when she found the strength to get up out of this bed and tidy her hair and her cuts and bruises , as if absolutely nothing had occurred . |
| 12 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 13 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 14 | Remnants were found in the throat and gullet , as some of it had been swallowed . |
| 15 | Everything they had on the balcony got smeared with tar because the floor of it had been macadamed . |
| 16 | None of it had been intended . |
| 17 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 18 | The present owners purchased the mill in 1976 after part of it had been used to house chickens and the mill-pond had been used for fish-farming . |
| 19 | ‘ My father discovered some of it had been stolen , even though he was still being sent a bill each month to cover storage , ’ said Cooper . |
| 20 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 21 | Much of it had been enclosed , and pasture-farming was the predominant mode of agriculture . |
| 22 | An entry in the charges register disclosed that it was subject to restrictive covenants imposed by a deed of 1883 but did not reveal what those covenants were , because on first registration neither the deed nor a copy or abstract of it had been produced . |
| 23 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 24 | Spending his five shillings had given him great satisfaction , particularly as none of it had been wasted . |
| 25 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 26 | She had barely slept last night — even what little of it had been left when she had finally crawled beneath the bedcovers . |