Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as though something had chewed the handkerchief , or it had been destroyed by acid or something . |
| 2 | For he had stumbled across — or it had been revealed to him — that if you act as you deeply want to act and if that , sublimely , coincides with what you aim for , then nothing is simpler , nothing is more dynamic , nothing is happier . |
| 3 | Recently new markets have been found in foreign factory ships , mainly from the USSR and Poland , which have bought much of the catch at sea , or it has been sold to French canneries which take it by road and the cross-Channel ferry from Plymouth . |
| 4 | Similarly , if the float has been set too high , or it has been damaged , and no longer floats on the surface , water will also reach the overflow . |
| 5 | Either deficient or inappropriate perceptual data had been presented , or it has been inappropriately perceived , so that responses conflict rather than resolve . |
| 6 | If FMS is installed on your system ( ie. it was already installed , or it has been successfully installed as described in Section 1.4 ) then these parameters do not require to be modified . |
| 7 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |
| 8 | It was , or it has been , a believe that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 9 | It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 10 | It 's either broke down or it 's been an accident because there 's three cars there not just one or two . |
| 11 | Because if I 'd have come home and it 'd been a mess I would have had a face the longest of all ! |
| 12 | There were individual factory loyalties and there were divisional loyalties and it had been a pretty cosy relationship between the organisation and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 13 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 14 | He had put a Greek monogram of the first letters of the name of Christ ( CHR ) on his standards , and it had been a talisman of victory . |
| 15 | MONDAY morning , and it had been arranged that I would meet Miklós for lunch and then have the chance to talk with some writers from Hungarian PEN . |
| 16 | Harty had been admitted to St James 's with acute liver failure and hepatitis B infection , and it had been Giles 's job to find a donor . |
| 17 | It 's over 220 yards , of course , and it had been playing long all week . |
| 18 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
| 19 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 20 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 21 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 22 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 23 | Before moving into it the family had lived with Sally 's grandparents and it had been very cramped . |
| 24 | And it was then , when Jakali 's husband 's ploughing bull died despite the new stable , that Kalchu had felt obliged to lend him his , and it had been overworked and died . |
| 25 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 26 | There was more wrong with Sheridan than ill-temper , and it had been obvious to his father for a long time . |
| 27 | It was another Glory and it had been abandoned , half in and half out of a ditch . |
| 28 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 29 | And it had been , of course . |
| 30 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |