Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather appeared to be a slight but inconsistent preference for mucosal IgG1 production also in Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 3 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 4 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 5 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 6 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 7 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 8 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 9 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 10 | Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting . |
| 11 | As for the lads — it just had to be those gorgeously groomed guys Jason Priestly and Luke Perry , stars of Beverly Hills 90210 . |
| 12 | It just had to be upfront and radical . |
| 13 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 14 | It just had to be this year , when Anthony was champion , that they did n't . |
| 15 | McEnroe was philosophical : ‘ It just got to be too long where I had n't won the big one . |
| 16 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 17 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 18 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 19 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |
| 20 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 21 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 22 | But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies . |
| 23 | Further calculations supported this view , and it soon came to be adopted generally . |
| 24 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 25 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 26 | His lecture took as its starting point the distinction drawn by the Wolfenden Committee between public and private behaviour , and what it thus considered to be the proper role of the criminal law in these areas . |
| 27 | An organization which if it ever came to be formed will be representing nearly two million people . |
| 28 | It might be contemptible , but it still had to be worth conquering ; and the fifteenth-century verse chronicle by John Hardyng , which demonstrated that Scotland , with its three fair university cities and fruitful countryside , could easily victual incoming English armies , makes the point very well . |
| 29 | It still had to be filled with an eye dropper , but the pen proved so successful that Montblanc continued producing them until the outbreak of World War II . |
| 30 | Secondly , the machine was not at the time of the contract in a deliverable state , since it still had to be removed from the concrete emplacement . |