Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 2 | It had been raised in international conferences in the late 1960s but was first officially presented by a Malaysian diplomat in April 1970 at the preparatory meeting of the non-aligned states in Dar-es-Salaam . |
| 3 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 4 | It had been engaged in regular combat with the Red Army , as part of German forces . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not necessary to consider what would have been the effect of the payment of £20 if it had been made in full satisfaction of the demand against Hunter . |
| 6 | ‘ We had very little work to do to it because it had been kept in great condition throughout its time as a lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |
| 8 | It had been left in beautiful order — carpets , central heating , furniture , thick curtains . |
| 9 | It had been re-affirmed as a centre-piece of Roman-Catholic social philosophy in the Encyclical ‘ Quadrogesimo Anno ’ of 1931 , some time after it had been enshrined in various pieces of German social welfare legislation in the 1920s . |
| 10 | The language , if it had been translated in modern language there 'd be no , no problem ? |
| 11 | It had been popularized in lesbian feminist circles by the American writer , Adrienne Rich , and was taken up as a way of understanding the common ground between the very different oppressions experienced by lesbians and gay men of different classes , different ages , different races , etc . |