Example sentences of "[subord] it have [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it had been a rest home for British Telecom , alterations were necessary to provide the ten individual bed sitting rooms and the Housekeepers flat , whilst at the same time some safety improvements were needed to meet the Fire Officer 's regulations . |
| 2 | Although it had been a very warm day , the evening had a slight feeling of autumn : it was particularly beautiful , with the sun turning the leaves of the trees a marvellous golden colour . |
| 3 | The importance of the rectum in pop is something rarely acknowledged , although it 's been a constant ; from George Clinton to the Beastie Boys ( with their crapped-in-pants waddledance ) , a record 's crucial when it has a lot of bottom . |
| 4 | Well , it 's turned out not so badly , he thought , although it 's been a rough ride . |
| 5 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 6 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 7 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 8 | The distinction has been more in the minds of the negotiators ( especially the British negotiators ) than it has been a reality or , more important , likely to be given much credence by the Court of Justice if and when it comes to adjudicate on the basis of the Treaty . |
| 9 | Just as fate had been unkind in many ways to those Titfords who had stayed in Frome throughout the 18th century , so it had been a firm friend to the descendants of William the Emigrant after his arrival in Kent . |
| 10 | He had assumed they would all enter medicine as he had , so it had been a shock when Jack had chosen law . |
| 11 | Dane Jacobsen was one of the best known and most accomplished actors of his generation , so it had been a real coup for the tiny television station to secure his services for a drama serial on the Vikings , to be shot in Cumbria . |
| 12 | Just as Japan , a country dependent for 60% of its energy on oil , was a major sufferer when prices doubled in the second oil shock of 1979 , so it has been a major beneficiary of the subsequent fall in crude prices . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 15 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 16 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 17 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 18 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 19 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 20 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 21 | If it had been a more crowded time there would have been unbelievable numbers , ’ he said . |
| 22 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 23 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 24 | If it had been a girl , Drew wanted to call her Chukka . |
| 25 | IF it had been a Companies Act prospectus , it would have landed the entire Cabinet in jail . |
| 26 | Rebecque suddenly sneezed again and , as if it had been a word of command , the French batteries resumed their cannonade . |
| 27 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 30 | What if it had been a real rapist ? ’ |