Example sentences of "[subord] it have be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 2 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 3 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 4 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 5 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 6 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 7 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 8 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 9 | If it had been any faster , the child would have been killed . |
| 10 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 11 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 12 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 13 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 14 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 15 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 16 | Phenomenal because it 's been such a difficult year , and this is erm a prize that 's given to the gentleman or lady that accrues the most points in the whole of the amateur section . |
| 17 | It was Doyle who answered , thoughtfully , as though it had been any ordinary question . |
| 18 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 19 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 20 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |