Example sentences of "[adv] it have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 2 | Perhaps it had been a decision taken by a General of KGB in the Lubyanka , perhaps the papers had gone to the Politburo or even to the President , but the matter had not been pushed . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | Perhaps it had been a mistake to dismiss him so summarily after all , she thought with dissatisfaction . |
| 5 | Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency . |
| 6 | Obviously it had been a fight , but since Fairbrother was a newcomer to the school , aggressive and ever ready to defend himself with insults , no particular motive was assigned to either party . |
| 7 | So it had been a bluff . |
| 8 | So it had been a collection day today . |
| 9 | Probably it had been a combination of all these things . |
| 10 | Up until now it 's been a duet between Anthony d'Offay and Lisson galleries to win the prize . |
| 11 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 12 | Surely it had been a joke , prompted by the dreadful heavy seriousness of Dwight Kronweiser and the overreverent attitude to Walter taken up for public reasons by Viola . |
| 13 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 14 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |
| 15 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 16 | In 1970 there were seven suicides and in 1980 , the year after Greenland won ’ home rule ’ under Danish protection ( until then it had been a province of Denmark ) the figure rose to 41 . |
| 17 | Everything had been bad , but at least it had been a kind of understandable , nome-sized badness . |
| 18 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 19 | And once again it 's been a week in which the events in the gulf have dominated the headlines . |
| 20 | The National Audit Act , a private member 's bill sponsored by Mr St John Stevas , provided that the Public Accounts Committee should have a decisive voice in the choice of the Comptroller — previously it had been a government nomination . |