Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it had been " 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 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 4 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 5 | The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 8 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 9 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 10 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 11 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 12 | Although Pendero had finished strongly at Ascot , that was because it had been a truly run race and the leaders had finished tired . |
| 13 | If the fish was fresh it was because it had been deep frozen within minutes of being caught and packed up to be bought by her goodness only knew how many months later for Mark 's Lenten supper . |
| 14 | My father had left , but everything apart from his absence was as it had been . |
| 15 | And that the reality of her love was as it had been in the wood : she should never marry anyone else , whatever happened . |