Example sentences of "it had also [been] " in BNC.

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1 He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day .
2 It had also been said that his father had been employed there .
3 It had also been granted Special Development Orders by the government in order to bypass planning permission for its investigations .
4 It had also been studied in America , with the result that the cylindrical wheel was recommended for high speed work .
5 G9 had not only secured Titron — it had also been a probe .
6 It had also been hoped that midfielder Michael Thomas would play this week but the former Arsenal midfielder has suffered a reaction to his Achilles problem and his comeback has been delayed .
7 It had also been the seat of Soviet government since March 1918 .
8 The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter .
9 It had also been a difficult and painful year .
10 But it had also been brought home to her with chilling clarity how easily he might have snatched her .
11 The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners .
12 John might be absent , but he provided the focus of the evening ; he was the reason everyone was at St Bride 's , sharing this strange experience — and even if it was strange , it had also been very moving .
13 It had also been Marcus who had phoned Connon with the news of Arthur 's visit to the police station .
14 As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme .
15 It had also been cut by a culvert originally containing a wooden box drain , which might be connected with the provision of the sandstone-lined drains further east .
16 If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another .
17 He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability .
18 It had also been the scene of the worst communal massacres of the sixties , and parts were now an Aussie-designated budget-tourist hell on earth .
19 It had also been her first real brush with masculine anger and the effect frightened her .
20 It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families .
21 It had also been discovered that ANT , which had since been closed down , had been preparing other illegal export deals worth nearly US$900,000,000 involving items including valuable metals , uncut diamonds and classified aviation equipment .
22 It had also been opposed , however , by the government 's political opponents , who felt that a first-past-the-post system would give an unfair advantage to the LDP .
23 It had also been strongly criticized by the tobacco industry .
24 It had also been exploited by the re-election campaign team of President Bush , which had sought to portray the Democrat majority in Congress as responsible for sabotaging the Republican administration 's domestic policy initiatives .
25 The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter .
26 ( The pope may have been influenced by the fact that three years earlier the Spanish government had limited the right of asylum in Madrid , where it had also been quite unjustifiably extended , to the houses of foreign ambassadors . )
27 It was not difficult for Laura to remember the first time she had set eyes on Ross Wyndham , because it had also been the day of her cousin 's wedding .
28 To add to the difficulties , pleasure flights were still in progress and , while it had been relatively easy to prevent any more from taking off after hearing of the emergency situation , it had also been necessary to radio to others to stay in the air and not attempt to land until the crisis was over .
29 Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century .
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