Example sentences of "was [conj] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official reason given for the committee 's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution and illicit dealings with foreign powers . |
| 2 | What Labour could hardly claim was that it had a magic formula for preserving peace with the unions , although the St Valentine 's Day ‘ concordat ’ with the unions was milked for what it was worth . |
| 3 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 4 | The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist . |
| 5 | THROUGH THIS PLEASANT little chapel in a quiet side street was clearly suitable for conversion to offices — providing the trustees with the financial return they sought — the story was that it had to be demolished because there was nowhere to site the requisite number of car-parking spaces . |
| 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 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |
| 8 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 9 | Though there were some criticisms of the new technology , the general consensus was that it had improved the quality of the jobs people did . |
| 10 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 11 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 12 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 13 | The general opinion was that it had fizzled out ; like a spent squib , it had n't even given one burst . |
| 14 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 17 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 18 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 19 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 20 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 21 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 22 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 23 | If anyone did , the logical explanation was that it had fallen off . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | The constant complaint of the British Party against the NUWM was that it had failed to use its influence with employed workers and trade unionists . |
| 27 | But the trouble with the Garden of Eden , Lindsey found herself thinking , was that it had some rather disturbing connotations , not to mention the odd serpent ! |
| 28 | Her only excuse was that it had happened so quickly — too quickly . |
| 29 | The only snag with decorating was that it had kept her hands busy , but left her mind all too free to wander . |
| 30 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |