Example sentences of "it have [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
2 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
3 | It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt . |
4 | It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt . |
5 | The Queen goes on : ‘ It has indeed been a sombre year . |
6 | As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year . |
7 | It has certainly been a bad start , ’ said Richard Lynch in BIFU 's London office . |
8 | As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one , in that season beloved of medieval lyricists . |
9 | But when I have , it has always been a green-flowered form , like the Machet variety , and in the evening . |
10 | For as long as I can remember it has always been a tidy , clean , friendly place . |
11 | It has always been a poor region where the constant threat of danger breeds a hardy race of people . |
12 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
13 | It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility . |
14 | Yet it has never been a popular species . |
15 | It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality . |
16 | One , what is it , it 'd better be a good one |
17 | It had also been a difficult and painful year . |
18 | So we invoked that agreement , and Charlie said Winter Garden had set a precedent and we said No it had n't , it had just been a Cold War expedient and those days were over . |
19 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
20 | Indeed it had never been a favourite pastime of hers . |
21 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
22 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
23 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
24 | The United States argued that since Nicaragua had never ratified its declaration it had always been a third party to the jurisdictional scheme . |
25 | It had really been a fatherly routine check to see that all was well with the place his daughter was attending . |
26 | For a first Mass it had certainly been a tough baptism . |
27 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
28 | He could smell the drink ; it had obviously been a heavy session . |
29 | It had once been a middle-of-the-road paper with a big circulation and had traditionally reflected the views , or prejudices , of its middle-of-the-road readers . |
30 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |