Example sentences of "it [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 2 | The degree of selective pressure towards co-operation group awareness , and identification was so strong , and the period over which it operated was so extended ( at least three million years , and probably even longer ) , that it can hardly fail to have become embedded to some measure in our genetic makeup ( 1977 : 209 , emphasis ours ) . |
| 3 | A number of manufactures showed an early interest in the group and among the first products it evaluated were alarm systems and home security ideas , doors and new types of door handles , windows , kitchens and bathroom fixtures . |
| 4 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 5 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 6 | The helplessness of that figure and the hopelessness it conveyed was always there . |
| 7 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 8 | It was particularly critical of the role played in the scandal by Col. Clyde Walker , head of the self-defence force , whom it recommended should be dismissed , and that of former Minister of Communications and Public Works Vere Bird Jr , son of the Prime Minister , who it recommended be barred from resuming public office . |
| 9 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 10 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 11 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 12 | The earthenwares it produced were marked in several ways . |
| 13 | The grapes it produced were small and hard , inedible . |
| 14 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 16 | Any noise it made was lost in the wind . |
| 17 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 18 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 19 | The difference it made was internal . |
| 20 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 21 | Any sound it made was lost in the green murk . |
| 22 | Von Schelting 's most powerful criticism was that the sociology of knowledge undermined its own basis — it was apparently making a claim for its own truth that it argued was not available for knowledge in general . |
| 23 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 24 | The army refused to become involved in what it maintained was an ‘ industrial ’ strike and , anyway , it was incapable of running the electricity industry . |
| 25 | During the 1960s the scheme was widened to include more categories of workers and the financial assistance it provided was also considerably raised . |
| 26 | OK , it 's maybe a little quiet , but there are ways of getting around that if you are a strong player , but I felt that the atmosphere which it created was unique . |
| 27 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 28 | But when it stopped being a thrill , I gave it up . ’ |
| 29 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 30 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |