Example sentences of "[adv] it have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He was aware that Sidacai 's death at this point would be considered a waste , and so it had been a calculated risk to demonstrate readiness to accept a challenge . |
2 | ‘ We have lost four games recently that we never deserved to lose so it 's been a hard time for us . |
3 | nationally it has been a stimulating time . |
4 | Secretary David Ryder said : ‘ We would be sorry to leave Acklam Park , because traditionally it 's been a well-supported venue in the Northern part of the county . ’ |
5 | She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender . |
6 | Overall it 's been a good season . |
7 | They had a fire at Saint Leonards and they 've been saying that really it 's been a good thing . |
8 | At best it has been an unwelcome overhead ; often it has been a non-productive one . |
9 | But she thought well it 's been a good experience anyway and she tho felt that she 'd played her pieces well erm |
10 | Well it 's been a long time now . ’ |
11 | But up to then it had been a right mild winter . |
12 | Otherwise it has been a strange one , with Janice trying hard to be ‘ cultured ’ , Teddy achieving it in Janice 's eyes and Lucker remaining slightly detached . |
13 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
14 | Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason . |