Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |
| 32 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 33 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 34 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 35 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 36 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 37 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 38 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 39 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 40 | If anyone did , the logical explanation was that it had fallen off . |
| 41 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 42 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 43 | The constant complaint of the British Party against the NUWM was that it had failed to use its influence with employed workers and trade unionists . |
| 44 | But the trouble with the Garden of Eden , Lindsey found herself thinking , was that it had some rather disturbing connotations , not to mention the odd serpent ! |
| 45 | Her only excuse was that it had happened so quickly — too quickly . |
| 46 | The only snag with decorating was that it had kept her hands busy , but left her mind all too free to wander . |
| 47 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 48 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 49 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 50 | The large catch was that it had to be done quickly and with no capital expenditure on new equipment . |
| 51 | That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was . |
| 52 | The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail . |
| 53 | So he was and it had it 's Tormore House was really a lovely place . |
| 54 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 55 | Although Pendero had finished strongly at Ascot , that was because it had been a truly run race and the leaders had finished tired . |
| 56 | Labour had not won the argument over how to run a capitalist economy better than the Conservatives , so it could not take on its detractors — and that was because it had not thought through how it should be done . |
| 57 | If the fish was fresh it was because it had been deep frozen within minutes of being caught and packed up to be bought by her goodness only knew how many months later for Mark 's Lenten supper . |
| 58 | The place was as it had always been , a downland in miniature , a terrain of small green hills on which little dolmens had been raised , pink granite , white marble , a slab or two of grey stone . |
| 59 | My father had left , but everything apart from his absence was as it had been . |
| 60 | The wall was as it had always been … but at the centre was a black smear , like the blackened smear that might be left by some kind of fire ; as if a blowlamp had been held there . |