Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it had been badly repaired and clumsily painted , but these things I could remedy . |
| 2 | By the middle of the nineteenth century it had been firmly established that there was something curious about Mercury 's orbit . |
| 3 | Previously , it had been generally accepted that the requirement of an undertaking in damages as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction did not apply in the case of the Crown . |
| 4 | In earlier decades it had been generally agreed that there would be benefits from standardisation , but with the benefits accruing variously to consumers , undertakings generally and appliance manufacturers , while the costs fell on the non-standard undertakings alone , there had been a failure to agree on finance for a common scheme . |
| 5 | Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well . |
| 6 | Until this stage ‘ it had been clearly understood and implicitly accepted during the entire process by all parties involved that the recomposition of the regime in Kabul would occur in parallel with the phased withdrawal of Soviet forces ’ . |
| 7 | He said it had been clearly stated that there would not be any unilateral change in Articles 2 and 3 . |
| 8 | In Helby v. Matthews he was merely hiring them and in Lee v. Butler it had been expressly agreed that the furniture was not to become his property until the payments had been completed . |
| 9 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 10 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 11 | Ever since 1945 it had been widely accepted that there was a need to reform local government to bring greater efficiency and more vigour into the system . |
| 12 | In recent months it had been widely reported that Saw Maung , who had chaired the SLORC since the army assumed power in 1998 , had suffered a mental breakdown . |
| 13 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 14 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 15 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 16 | It had been widely denounced as disastrous both for the environment and the local Auyu forest people , whose traditional lands would be devastated [ see ED 46 for a detailed account of the project ] . |
| 17 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 18 | Although it had been initially stated that the elections would be held in September , they were then postponed to Nov. 4 , with a second round if necessary on Nov. 25 . |
| 19 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |