Example sentences of "it had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have been , would have been , indeed , originally it had been Cara and not her who had been going to make the trip to Czechoslovakia alone . |
| 2 | Yes , it had been Edwin 's turn for fire watching in Farringdon Street , but his wife was having a baby so Ivor Gundry , one of our best scholars , from Bridport in Dorset , had volunteered to take his place . |
| 3 | The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war . |
| 4 | ‘ Just think if it had been polio or something like that . ’ |
| 5 | During 1986 and 1987 , more than two-thirds of their work was repeat business ; in 1985 it had been 80% , so much of the increase in volume was due to winning new clients . |
| 6 | After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms . |
| 7 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 8 | It had been chance |
| 9 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 10 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 11 | But it had been Mrs McBride who had started as she meant to go on . |
| 12 | It had been Footballer of the Year Waddle who had resurrected the Owls ' hopes with a 68th minute equaliser after Ian Wright 's 30th goal of the season 12 minutes before half-time had been just reward for Arsenal 's early domination . |
| 13 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 14 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 15 | It had been Adam , too , who had broached the subject of a new computer programming system for the business . |
| 16 | According to Lotta it had been Rune who had stormed out , taking the painting with him , which meant what ? |
| 17 | Between 1972 and 1981 it had been £14 billion a year . |
| 18 | But even in their search , strictly speaking , it had been Peter who had succeeded and not he . |
| 19 | It had been Exchange policy to allow only partnerships to come into membership , but in 1982 a a new rule was introduced which permitted members to become limited companies and to have an outside share ownership of up to 29.9% . |
| 20 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 21 | However , it had been d'Arquebus who returned along that terrifying , tormenting tunnel … had it not ? |
| 22 | I thought it had been Diane and the Charles ! |
| 23 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 24 | Whereas if it had been standing room , we really would have been standing . |
| 25 | She grinned and pushed him out , glad that it had been Mario 's little maid and not Lucenzo who had helped her to dress earlier . |
| 26 | If it had been Piphros , it was encouraging . |
| 27 | For the British Army , it had been Operation Corporate , the reclaiming of the Falkland Islands in 1982 . |
| 28 | She would have been soaked if it had been water . |
| 29 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 30 | The way you looked at him and how he was continually glancing at you told me it had been love at first sight . ’ |