Example sentences of "it have been a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a public relations exercise for this week 's by-elections . |
| 2 | In the last few years there has been a strong demand from Germany as well , but on the whole it has been a home breed rather than a traveller . |
| 3 | Herr Winter tells us that it has been a family business ever since it was established by his grandfather , who also took the opportunity to purchase one of the three existing original Nipper paintings . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've always tried to keep the game open and in this respect for many of the younger players it has been a learning experience , ’ said Gray . |
| 5 | Purists argue that science should be precise , and that standardisation of terminology is part of this precision , but I think it has been a retrograde step . |
| 6 | The opening ceremony represented Courtaulds ' opportunity to rededicate itself to a business in which it has been a world leader throughout most of this century … |
| 7 | Could it have been a shot gun do you think ? |
| 8 | Examination of recovered material shows it to have been a type I carbonaceous chondrite . |
| 9 | She was glad to escape ; it had been a working lunch , set up to discuss a new second-year course on the influence of gender on literary style , and the syllabus had provoked considerable opposition from two of her older male colleagues . |
| 10 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 11 | Before the war , it had been a fruit market and bus station ; one side of its nineteenth-century Levantine façade had served as the entrance to the souk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 14 | It seemed to be of horsemen having a nice peaceful ride in the wood — picnickers , almost — until I discovered the animal , when it became perfectly clear that it had been a hunting scene all along . |
| 15 | Neither was there Wendy , a girl in my form ( it had been a school trip ) who had legs that never quit , long legs , the type rampant fell men dream of . |
| 16 | IF it had been a Companies Act prospectus , it would have landed the entire Cabinet in jail . |
| 17 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 18 | It had been a Saturday afternoon and there had been a crush round the lingerie counter , eager hands rummaging among the panties . |
| 19 | It had been a mismatch right from the very start . |
| 20 | If it had been a summer night |
| 21 | The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery . |
| 22 | It had been a birthday present from Anderson , the land steward from Scotland , whom she dearly loved and hoped to marry — if he was still single when she was sixteen . |
| 23 | ‘ If it had been a car bomb , it would have blown in those windows . ’ |
| 24 | So it had been a collection day today . |
| 25 | Steve Bull , one of the over-age players , scored twice in England 's win , but Sexton was keen to point out it had been a team performance , with Manchester City 's David White and Dave Smith , of Coventry , particularly effective . |
| 26 | Once it had been a railway shed , indeed the tracks were still in it , later , in a period when Gilbey 's Gin had used the building as a warehouse , a balcony had been added , which was only wide enough to take one person . |
| 27 | He remembered the diary very well ; it had been a Christmas present from his father in 1963 . |
| 28 | Well I think it 's been a mans world , they , they 've had a wonderful time ! |
| 29 | It 's been a reggae smash for weeks on end but no-one in the pop world has noticed yet . |
| 30 | It 's been a beach carnival of rhetoric by the sea . |