Example sentences of "it have been [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World squad matches in New Zealand were great and I felt in fine fettle there but after injury in Australia it has been quite a struggle . |
| 2 | It has been quite an eye-opener for us . |
| 3 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 4 | How could it have been simply an accident ? |
| 5 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 6 | It had been nearly a year ago , when the postman had delivered a letter postmarked Venice to the little cottage in Wales she had shared with her grandmother . |
| 7 | When local police were told of two female bodies on the beach , it had been just a nuisance . |
| 8 | But she knew it had been just an impulse — a ‘ strawberry kiss ’ , he 'd called it . |
| 9 | It had been over a year since Katherine had seen him and again she was struck by the magnetism of those coal dark eyes , the indolence of his gestures as he took her hand and playfully brought it to his lips . |
| 10 | Craig stared into the fire , it had been over a week since he had escaped from the prison , lying in the back of the van , smelling the fresh mouthwatering tang of bread and listening to the clip clop of the horses ’ hooves . |
| 11 | It had been scarcely a quarter smoked ! |
| 12 | Katherine 's lips moved in a grim smile as she recalled some of the details — it had been quite a scandal . |
| 13 | It had been quite a day . |
| 14 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |
| 15 | It had been quite a year , in more ways than one … |
| 16 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 17 | It had been almost a minute before Joe replied , ‘ Yes , Carrie . ’ |
| 18 | It had been almost a relief when , just after her eighth birthday , her father had disappeared . |
| 19 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 20 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 21 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 22 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 23 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 24 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 25 | If it had been only the Empress and a Court clique who desired war , things might have turned out differently , but given the wave of bellicosity which swept the entire nation , it would have required a miracle to produce a peaceful end to the crisis . |
| 26 | She had thought herself in love , but it had been only an infatuation , the awakening response of a young , impressionable girl . |
| 27 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 28 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 29 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 30 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |