Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 2 | ‘ I was playing better at the end and if it had been a five set match I think I could have fought back . ’ |
| 3 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 4 | The valley ended quite suddenly in a massive amphitheatre of surrounding mountains rising to 7,000 ft , and as it had been a cold spring there was still a lot of snow . |
| 5 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 6 | But if it had been an unusually intelligent bird — an escaped mynah bird , perhaps , or a parrot that had been blown several thousand miles off course by very strong winds — ; it would have thought : |