Example sentences of "[vb -s] it be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 2 | Has it been a result of clear theological arguments ? |
| 3 | Has it been a happy one that augurs well for the ‘ marriage ’ of your two households ? |
| 4 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 5 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 6 | Has it been a distinctive political culture , citizens being prepared to acquiesce in and , when called on , to support the demands made of them by government ? |
| 7 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 8 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 9 | The tour is almost over , but has it been a success . |
| 10 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 11 | Yeah but how many , how many times has it been a shop ? |
| 12 | Has it been a nuisance having them ? |
| 13 | In fact has it been a very difficult year for you or have you been able to have some control , because it 's all down to the watering I guess |
| 14 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 15 | The 901 in the engine number signifies it is a 2 25 litre , 81 compression ratio and three main bearing unit |
| 16 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 17 | Mr D'Sa said : ‘ He accepts it was a potentially dangerous situation . |
| 18 | It probably illustrates it 's a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars . |
| 19 | Whenever this happens it is a sad waste of the stimulus which projects can engender . |
| 20 | ‘ The Headmaster says it 's a man-eater , ’ continued Mcduff . |
| 21 | ‘ Mother Francis always says it 's a pity to judge people by the garments they wear . ’ |
| 22 | Deanes says it 's a cry for help . ’ |
| 23 | Constanza says it 's a French period face , Clouet , the portrait of Monsieur Pienne ( clean-shaved ) . |
| 24 | G agrees the water looks good and says it 's a Class Two river , ’ except when it rains , when it gets all the run-off and also lots of foul water from the foul sewer overflow . |
| 25 | I 'm having a bit of trouble with Spike 's laser printer at work cos it 's not a real It it says it 's a Hewlett-Packard Two Plus but it ai n't . |
| 26 | Nottingham spokesman for housing charity , Tim says it 's a major problem . |
| 27 | He says it 's a good idea to recharge the batteries before the big scene . |
| 28 | So the it says it 's a short story . |
| 29 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 30 | What 's caus David says it 's a lack of vitamins , |