Example sentences of "it had be " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 32 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 33 | That made the tie between him and journalism even stronger than it had been . |
| 34 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 35 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 36 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 37 | Her remarks were recorded before events in Tianamen Square and it was clear by the end of the programme that the proper function of current affairs television was less of a live debate inside the country than it had been . |
| 38 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 39 | As Bowen admitted , it had been ‘ like the Alamo ’ for Norwich and bastions was on the lips of every Millwall supporter as they headed home complaining of an iniquitous defeat , their moans contrasting the broadcasted cries of consummation . |
| 40 | He also did what any American college president is expected to do — he raised money , leaving the college on a sounder footing , both financially and academically , than it had been when he took office . |
| 41 | She learnt that it had been developed in the 1920s by a German physician , Dr Max Gerson . |
| 42 | It had been thought that Mr Prescott would replace Bryan Gould , the trade and industry spokesman . |
| 43 | It had been a fair old fitness test . |
| 44 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 45 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 46 | He said it had been vital to keep Operation Beehive secret from the Soviets and the Yugoslavs , so many people within V Corps had not known about it . |
| 47 | But an army spokesman denied that it had been asked to prepare to intervene . |
| 48 | It had been a dark age for administrative justice . |
| 49 | Although he failed to check it had been accident-free , he assured the lady that this was the case . |
| 50 | It had been in an accident and it was worthless . |
| 51 | As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market . |
| 52 | He said : ‘ If it had been us , we 'd have demanded 10 engines . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ When I was allowed to go West again after 20 years , two years ago , I could n't believe how it had been transformed . |
| 55 | The general allegations in it had been made before : Harry Phibbs had a moment of fame for calling the late Earl of Stockton ‘ a war criminal ’ on the strength of Count Tolstoy 's theories , but he got away with it . |
| 56 | Doubts remain about the saga of four men who spent 118 days drifting atop their upturned trimaran after it had been flipped by a huge wave before being washed up on an island near Auckland . |
| 57 | All in all , Toshack said , it had been a ‘ negative ’ night for Real . |
| 58 | Increasingly referred to by its citizens as ‘ the Zone ’ , as it had been when it was merely the Soviet occupation zone , it has achieved no genuine separate identity or legitimacy . |
| 59 | Lord Aldington denied it had been his first thought : ‘ Silence is the right word . ’ |
| 60 | The speech itself was passed by Conservative Central Office without any objection : it had been partly inspired by his close reading of the material supplied by the Child Poverty Action Group , and with his concern of the ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ , a phrase he popularised — or even , perhaps , coined . |