Example sentences of "it had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 2 | Alders and willows and rich grass and wild rose briars described a great , smooth horseshoe shape that was still hollowed gently into the green earth , with such authority that it had been acknowledged in perpetuity as a natural boundary , and a single large field hemmed within it . |
| 3 | With a view toward facilitating the use of electronic bills of lading , the Law Commissions recommended that the Secretary of State be empowered to ‘ make provision by regulations for information given by means other than in writing to be of equivalent force and effect as if it had been given in writing . ’ |
| 4 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 5 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 6 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 7 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 8 | When delivered , it was discovered to be poisonous because it had been contaminated with castor oil . |
| 9 | It had been renamed in honour of Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslavia 's communist leader until his death in 1980 . |
| 10 | Since then the rumours have escalated : that the sister of Arkle had been remeasured by the Ordnance Survey ; that it had been resurveyed by satellite — that Foinavon , by virtue of its new stature , had joined the charmed 277 . |
| 11 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 12 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |
| 13 | Afterwards , when ethylene became available on a large scale from oil refining processes — previously it had been made from alcohol — the price of the polymer dropped . |
| 14 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 15 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 16 | There was the faintest whiff of irony in the fax which Grant Baird , head of Scotland Europa , sent to Highlands & Islands Enterprise on hearing that it had been elevated to Objective One status in the European Community , entitling it to the maximum amount of regional development funds . |
| 17 | Not only was the distress worse , it had been aggravated by interference from Westminster . |
| 18 | It looked as though something had chewed the handkerchief , or it had been destroyed by acid or something . |
| 19 | Rather it had been assumed in order that those phenomena could become intelligible to the mind . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They suggested that it had been created by fusion within the metal and that muons from cosmic radiation might have been the catalyst . |
| 22 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 23 | It had been sent by e-mail , transferred to a 3.5 ’ floppy disk and as a source of information was useless without specific software and hardware . |
| 24 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 25 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |
| 26 | It had been wrapped in tissue paper , like a treasure . |
| 27 | And ‘ the moor ’ is the description of the scene before it had been claimed for cultivation . |
| 28 | As it had been used after employment it could only have been protected by an express term . |
| 29 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 30 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |