Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 2 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 3 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 4 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 5 | After some discussion on back-dating , the formula was accepted though it had only six months to live . |
| 6 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 7 | Asked what had happened , she answered : " The horse was shot because it had a broken leg . " |
| 8 | Anyway , today I was told that it had been passed . |
| 9 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 10 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 11 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 12 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 13 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 14 | But in a letter dated January 7 , the claim was rejected because it had not arrived within 120 days of his leaving Michelin . |
| 15 | And the County Ground Hotel was warned that it had been targetted by 150 United supporters . |
| 16 | He tried to argue , but everyone in the room knew that the battle was lost before it had even begun . |
| 17 | Well when when it was first read by erm it was mentioned that it had been written by the Green Party by radio four and the Guardian and the Independent . |
| 18 | Part of the number plate was obscured and it had been badly resprayed . |
| 19 | I purchased some Caulerpa serptularoides some time ago , but it was devoured before it had a chance to become established . |
| 20 | Since the direction of the direct and the indirect effect is the same ( which need not always be so ) , the size of the effect of job type on absenteeism would not be as large once sex was controlled as it had seemed in the bivariate relationship . |
| 21 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |
| 22 | The BCG matrix was chosen because it had clearly measurable axes for hypothetical examples , which is not the case for the McKinsey-GE matrix . |