Example sentences of "it had be " in BNC.

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1 There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart .
2 But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started .
3 But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started .
4 All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake .
5 The Vale , a moderne pub at Woodthorpe , Nottingham by Cecil Howitt , the favourite architect of the Home Brewery , was refused listing because it had been overly altered in 1968 , although Gedling Council managed to prevent the application of ‘ Victoriana ’ signage .
6 If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer .
7 But it had been days since he had managed to obtain a good , large dish of fresh-cooked vegetables .
8 Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside .
9 The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse .
10 ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits .
11 She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen .
12 It had been , I realized , an extremely long and tiring day .
13 During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while .
14 After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay .
15 They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room .
16 It had been an end , where Jay had yearned to be sure — had been sure ? what a fool believes ? — it would be a beginning .
17 Jay could n't remember why it had been so important to see her .
18 Surprise , surprise it had been : Falling in love again .
19 It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place .
20 It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges .
21 Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh .
22 It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records .
23 Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective .
24 It had been on loud all evening , and now it was the early hours of the morning .
25 It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed .
26 Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ?
27 If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation .
28 It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid .
29 It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect .
30 It had been announced earlier that Lilley would not take action against the national brewers if they still controlled a few pubs in excess of the number allowed under the Beer Orders legislation .
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