Example sentences of "[noun sg] it had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 2 | Vi looked again at the letter half-hidden behind the sepia vase on the kitchen mantel and wondered bitterly whose fault it had been . |
| 3 | The squash racquets , the Pope 's pronouncements , whose fault it had been their first night together , an afternoon really , but not much good in either case , the squash racquets again , the money spent on Grace . |
| 4 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 5 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 6 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 7 | Ever since the proxy marriage it had been so . |
| 8 | But George Burt made a lasting impression on the place , after which it was no longer the old-world village it had been . |
| 9 | Prior to the 1980 Act it had been observed that the law had been ‘ heavily weighed in favour of the local education authorities and schools with parents having few rights ( although many duties ) and little say in the decision-making process ’ . |
| 10 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 11 | But when the portents continued to gather that autumn , and ruling the kingdom grew further and further from the planned exercise it had been and more like taking a fleet out in freakish , untoward weather , there was a change in Thorfinn as well : the extra swiftness , the finer edge , the sharper zest created by danger . |
| 12 | An act of defiance it had been , and look where it had got her . |
| 13 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 14 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 15 | Even with side stitches taken out of work it had been more than my machine and yarn wanted to tackle . |
| 16 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 17 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 18 | What a peculiar exchange it had been : herring for the table against tableware . … |
| 19 | During the war it had been stored ( for safety ! ) in the crypt of St Paul 's Cathedral , where it suffered from the effects of high explosive . |
| 20 | During the course of the war it had been the privilege of Fleet Street and , to an even greater extent , the BBC to proclaim what it was that ordinary men and women felt about certain issues . |
| 21 | During the war it had been a dangerous neighbour , but no bomb had fallen on it , although fire-bombs had spattered all over Mouncy Street and Decimus Street . |
| 22 | Since the new hospital had not been large enough from the moment it had been built , prefabricated huts bred fissiparously , and straggled now under the shadow of the main building . |
| 23 | One moment it had been there , and the next ? |
| 24 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 25 | A 30-yearold ex-stockbroker , she was recruited from Oxford by a merchant bank in the early 1980s , but soon realised the City was not the place it had been . |
| 26 | She just hoped he had n't recognised her start for the violent sexual reaction it had been — a totally ridiculous reaction , she told herself , since she was n't in the least attracted to Fenton Marshall . |
| 27 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 28 | Normally the building was the repair shop and garage for thirty AMX-10 battle tanks , but for this evening it had been converted into a temporary church with the aid of some camouflage nets , 300 chairs and a platform where a nativity play would be staged , and from which the Priest would read out the lesson . |
| 29 | I was just thinking about what a horrendous evening it had been the night before and then he |
| 30 | At the summer Examination it had been suggested that |