Example sentences of "it had [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 2 | It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be . |
| 3 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 4 | Given asylum by King Alexander , it had remained in being as a military unit and on the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 had offered its services in defence of Yugoslavia against the Germans , although it did not take part in that brief campaign . |
| 5 | But as the days went on the truth became less difficult to live with than it had threatened to be , and she knew that she would never leave her husband because she , too , was to blame . |
| 6 | A young kangaroo would stand little chance of staying on board its mother as she bounded over the land if all it had to cling to was a nipple . |
| 7 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 8 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |
| 9 | It was hard to avoid the conclusion that while pique may have played a part in its foundation , it had come into being not so much to benefit its members in terms of strengthening trade within the seven , but on the basis of a belief that in unity there was strength : in other words , as a group of seven they would be in a less disadvantageous position vis-à-vis the Six than if each separately attempted to negotiate some accommodation with the Six . |
| 10 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 11 | During the course of the seventeenth century , despite the reaction against puritanism which followed the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 , this point of view became increasingly influential , so that by the end of the century it had come to be generally accepted . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , even here the shift is noticeably away from a hierarchically controlled model of ‘ Catholic Action ’ , as it had come to be called , to a far more diversified one . |
| 13 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 14 | The ring had taken itself back to where it rightfully belonged , and Cassie hoped that when Johnny next visited the cottage , he would find it there and understand how it had come to be so . |
| 15 | In fact , it had proved to be a triumphant event . |
| 16 | The exhibition was opened on 1 August by Dr Finlay MacLeod , whose enthusiasm for Hebridean maps had been the inspiration behind it , and by the time the exhibition closed on 31 October it had proved to be the most successful exhibition ever mounted by the Library , with an attendance of over 20,000 visitors . |
| 17 | However , and probably thanks to Carole Meadows ' warm , engaging personality , it had proved to be much easier than she could have imagined . |
| 18 | Against all the odds , it had proved to be a happy and companionable day , Ross 's unusually calm , friendly manner towards her having released much of the stresses and strains that had previously left her feeling so tense and nervous . |
| 19 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education . |
| 20 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 21 | It had ceased to be . |
| 22 | It was the First World War that finally killed off the " legion of Leagues " , but it had ceased to be a problem before 1914 . |
| 23 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 24 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 25 | More than any scholar of his generation ( G. Gilbert Murray , q.v. , apart ) he kept Greek literature alive at a time when it had ceased to be a compulsory subject in many schools . |
| 26 | By the time it did satisfy the relevant purpose test ( by having acquired the business ) it had ceased to be close by virtue of the institutions ' investment . |
| 27 | It had got to be worked for . |
| 28 | It had got to be as near as thi thinness of tissue paper . |
| 29 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
| 30 | It had died after being badly bitten by at least two dogs . |