Example sentences of "[verb] it have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 2 | … ‘ I expect it has been a while , yes . ’ |
| 3 | Having tried it here in our own studio and been most impressed , I have also spoken to JMP-1 converts Geoff Whitehorn and Phil Hilborne who say it 's been a godsend to their recording . |
| 4 | Lucy says it has been a lesson in sympathy to begin again as a ‘ new ’ teacher , finding a way to pull our work more into line with the current fitness scene . |
| 5 | I mean I know there 's been a lot of debate and I know that er you may feel it 's been a bit of a waste of time |
| 6 | Examination of recovered material shows it to have been a type I carbonaceous chondrite . |
| 7 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 8 | Calpers , with $1.5 billion invested in Japan , fears it has been a victim of this practice , along with other American pension funds . |
| 9 | Saying it 'd been a year when it 's been ten ! |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 11 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 12 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
| 13 | They insisted it had been a step up the social ladder ; he secretly disagreed . |
| 14 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 15 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 16 | Purists argue that science should be precise , and that standardisation of terminology is part of this precision , but I think it has been a retrograde step . |
| 17 | Well I think it 's been a mans world , they , they 've had a wonderful time ! |
| 18 | However , the problem is that Mr is not keen , I think it 's been a labour of love doing the one , he 's not keen to do the other one . |
| 19 | We 'd like to say it 's been a pleasure serving you , but we 'd be lying , you miserable tight-arses ! ’ |
| 20 | Oh are you well I 'll give you a a , I lost it at lunchtime ex-Radio Virgin certificate for being a first time on and er I 'd like to say it 's been a pleasure . |
| 21 | Mr David Howell ( C. Guildford ) , the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee , who opened the debate , said it had been a choice between the lesser evil of repatriation and the greater evil of doing nothing , which might inflict more cruelty , suffering and inhumane conditions on the people in the camps . |
| 22 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , you could say it has been a bit of an embarrassing muddle . |