Example sentences of "it be [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been a single pilot operation , the need to fly IFR would have resulted in a very tired individual . |
| 2 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 3 | Will it be a useful reference route map and a compass ? |
| 4 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 5 | Plus could it be the ultimate indie bassist 's revenge ? |
| 6 | Its nervous system is being controlled , as irresistibly as if it were a helpless drug addict , or as if the cuckoo were a scientist plugging electrodes into its brain . |
| 7 | With a gesture to the conventions of deathbed narratives , Landry reads Freemantle 's account as if it were a twentieth century novel . |
| 8 | An enemy unit may charge a Squig Hopper and fight it in hand-to-hand combat exactly as if it were a normal cavalry model . |
| 9 | Peter dismissed what was a thriving little business as if it were a run-down whelk stall . |
| 10 | Now that Mike 's gone he guards it like it were a blimmin' gold mine . ’ |
| 11 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 12 | Personally , I would have preferred a more neurasthenic approach to the Berg — more febrile and phantasmagorical — and a slightly faster tempo for the first movement of the Stravinsky , as though it were the tightest clockwork mechanism . |
| 13 | Anderson attempts to abnegate personal responsibility by assuming the role of tutor , treating his own behaviour as if it were an ethical test case , and invoking more complex philosophical arguments to support his position : His uncertainty , however , undermines his attempt to fob off Hollar with philosophical justifications . |
| 14 | Quite a simple procedure , the worst of it being a blue paper nightie that fastens down the back , exposing the cellulite to a firm-buttocked young operator . |
| 15 | it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ? |
| 16 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a pleasant stopping place , ’ he replied , and Fabia could n't help it , she just burst out laughing . |
| 18 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 19 | Bright and very comfortable to wear , it 's a perfect summer cover-up . |
| 20 | push the disk in if it 's a floppy disk version , if you have n't got a floppy disk er it 's got its own hard disk , you do n't need a floppy |
| 21 | Set on Corton Cliffs high above the beach , it 's a lush meadowland course ideal for mixed ability groups . |
| 22 | Well , it 's a hundred percent grant that the D of E gives to er the er county council , so then it 's really it 's transferred to us is n't it ? |
| 23 | No , it 's a , it 's a , it 's a hundred percent mortgage is n't it ? |
| 24 | It 's a dry summer time . |
| 25 | The trouble with religion , is that transference is based on an illusion and it serves the pleasure principle ultimately , because it 's a tremendous wish fulfilment . |
| 26 | Rather than rather than having a sort of under the counter scenario where er material considerations you know will be considered when it when it 's a separate planning application comes in there are there an ack there is an acknowledgement or a framework which is in a formal local plan which which identifies what the main considerations will be . |
| 27 | It 's a well-founded Dales village , mentioned in the Domesday Book , with a fascinating and somewhat turbulent , if bizarre history Cotherstone Castle , which loomed over the confluence of the rivers Tees and Balder , is now just a heap of rubble . |
| 28 | It 's a wee bit way out out of the road for Denise like you know . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a deceptive trade practice ’ , he said . |
| 30 | So again , it 's a low cost option for people to get their own housing . |