Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together .
2 This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise .
3 The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head .
4 If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth .
5 The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators .
6 She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible .
7 As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid .
8 Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year .
9 But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) .
10 Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity .
11 While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression .
12 The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns .
13 All I can remember is that it had nothing to do with his feet .
14 The reason , I believe , is that it had in mind the defeat inflicted on the previous Conservative government over the Jonathan Aitken trial to do with Biafra .
15 There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us .
16 That 's if it had any sockets upstairs !
17 The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect .
18 The official reason given for the committee 's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution and illicit dealings with foreign powers .
19 What Labour could hardly claim was that it had a magic formula for preserving peace with the unions , although the St Valentine 's Day ‘ concordat ’ with the unions was milked for what it was worth .
20 The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 .
21 The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist .
22 THROUGH THIS PLEASANT little chapel in a quiet side street was clearly suitable for conversion to offices — providing the trustees with the financial return they sought — the story was that it had to be demolished because there was nowhere to site the requisite number of car-parking spaces .
23 The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving .
24 He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management .
25 And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact .
26 Though there were some criticisms of the new technology , the general consensus was that it had improved the quality of the jobs people did .
27 All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’
28 A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over .
29 It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink .
30 The general opinion was that it had fizzled out ; like a spent squib , it had n't even given one burst .
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