Example sentences of "[conj] it have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's either broke down or it 's been an accident because there 's three cars there not just one or two . |
| 2 | Although it had been a rest home for British Telecom , alterations were necessary to provide the ten individual bed sitting rooms and the Housekeepers flat , whilst at the same time some safety improvements were needed to meet the Fire Officer 's regulations . |
| 3 | Hence CI5 's involvement , although it had been an assignment with an only partially successful outcome . |
| 4 | The importance of the rectum in pop is something rarely acknowledged , although it 's been a constant ; from George Clinton to the Beastie Boys ( with their crapped-in-pants waddledance ) , a record 's crucial when it has a lot of bottom . |
| 5 | Suzuki admitted that he had received 10,000,000 yen from Abe which he had neither declared as a political donation nor as personal income , and Shiozaki acknowledged the receipt of 20,000,000 yen but denied that it had been a bribe . |
| 6 | She accepted that it had been a shock to me , and she understood that I was feeling upset . ’ |
| 7 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 8 | He realized he had n't been anywhere , that it had been a trick they played on him to see if he spoke German . |
| 9 | The mock election has been organised by Mr Ian Gerrard , a history master , chairman of the Literary and Debating Society and returning officer , who confessed that it had been a bit of a ‘ sleazy ’ campaign . |
| 10 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 11 | Perhaps they felt that it had been a dream all along , always doomed , this fantastical idea that their young brother would go on and get himself a serious education , even go to college . |
| 12 | The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge . |
| 13 | It seemed to be of horsemen having a nice peaceful ride in the wood — picnickers , almost — until I discovered the animal , when it became perfectly clear that it had been a hunting scene all along . |
| 14 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 15 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 16 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 17 | She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem . |
| 18 | That it had been a mistake to come back to Eastlake ? |
| 19 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |
| 20 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
| 21 | To her amazement he took this like a lamb , and then had the effrontery to say that it had been a pleasure working with a businesswoman like her , and if there was anything else he could help her with , she only had to ask ! |
| 22 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |
| 23 | No matter that it had been a failure . |
| 24 | Now he knew that it had been a diversion , designed to hold his gaze so that he would be disadvantaged in his dealings with her . |
| 25 | He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light . |
| 26 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 27 | Wilkins also told magistrates that he had n't deliberately tipped his drink over the bar but that it had been an accident . |
| 28 | What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel . |
| 29 | The argument goes that if an issue has been over-subscribed , people who come in late already know that it has been a success and are therefore cutting down their risk . |
| 30 | Herr Winter tells us that it has been a family business ever since it was established by his grandfather , who also took the opportunity to purchase one of the three existing original Nipper paintings . |