Example sentences of "it [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 2 | But had n't it been a mistake though , he thought , was n't it more pointless than most evenings ? |
| 3 | Had it been a dream ? |
| 4 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 5 | Has it been a result of clear theological arguments ? |
| 6 | Has it been a happy one that augurs well for the ‘ marriage ’ of your two households ? |
| 7 | Had it been a nightmare ? |
| 8 | Had n't it been a mistake to let that Benny go to Dublin on her own after all ? |
| 9 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 10 | Had it been a figment of imagination , brought about with the increasing gloom , and the aura of the surrounding dereliction ? |
| 11 | Had it been a professional job all that would matter from your point of view would be that you followed their instructions and moved at their pace with my help . |
| 12 | Had it been a different matter I would of course have asked your permission . |
| 13 | Had it been a single pilot operation , the need to fly IFR would have resulted in a very tired individual . |
| 14 | Indeed , he opposed rigid grounding in English grammar and urged that Latin be taught by the direct method , as it would have been had it been a living language . |
| 15 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
| 16 | Had it been a boy , he would have been Arthur , after that toast of all good Cornishmen , the once and future king ; but as she was a girl , she was Jennifer , which was as close as need be to Guinevere . |
| 17 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 18 | Had it been a good flight ? |
| 19 | Had it been a series of small fields now merged into one ten-acre field ? |
| 20 | Had it been a lark on the dead man 's part ? |
| 21 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 22 | Had it been a mistake to include them ? |
| 23 | Had it been a woman in there , a woman staying with him , sleeping with him ? |
| 24 | You may wish to explore whether had it been a business transaction it would have been included in the profit and loss account . |
| 25 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 26 | Has it been a distinctive political culture , citizens being prepared to acquiesce in and , when called on , to support the demands made of them by government ? |
| 27 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 28 | Is it been a cold call and you 've qualified it by getting an advertisement out there or is it qualified by actually getting the money in your hand . |
| 29 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 30 | Had it been a prophecy , or had Luke merely implanted the idea in her head ? |