Example sentences of "it be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 2 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 3 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 4 | ‘ Had it been a total shock to you or had you suspected anything ? ’ |
| 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 | Had it been a professional job all that would matter from your point of view would be that you followed their instructions and moved at their pace with my help . |
| 7 | Indeed , he opposed rigid grounding in English grammar and urged that Latin be taught by the direct method , as it would have been had it been a living language . |
| 8 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 9 | Had it been a good flight ? |
| 10 | Has n't it been a lovely day ? |
| 11 | Had it been a different matter I would of course have asked your permission . |
| 12 | Is it been a cold call and you 've qualified it by getting an advertisement out there or is it qualified by actually getting the money in your hand . |
| 13 | Had it been a single pilot operation , the need to fly IFR would have resulted in a very tired individual . |
| 14 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 15 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 16 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 17 | Still , those who make it are a great bunch — and they know exactly what to expect — ‘ Holidays that Satisfy ’ — I 'll say . |
| 18 | The developments which threaten the World Cup as we have come to know it are an increased concentration of the economic wealth of football in a handful of countries , the more intrusive role of television and its hand-maiden , advertising , and the blurring of national identities created by the political upheavals around the world . |
| 19 | Will it be a useful reference route map and a compass ? |
| 20 | Before we get on to this next item , would it be a suitable place to break for , time to break for coffee ? |
| 21 | Will it be a multiple choice or a written or a |
| 22 | My own view is that it could , it be a great deal more than that , but this is within the , the erm , nationally prescribed requirements in terms of getting some consistency into local authority accounts . |
| 23 | Will it be a major interchange ? |
| 24 | Let it be a real change . |
| 25 | Would it be a good idea , perhaps , to introduce exit visas ? |
| 26 | Neither would it be a good idea for anyone , male or female , to hitch-hike alone across Europe . |
| 27 | Would n't it be a good idea for the Labour Party in those places to check whether all the expats were legitimately registered ? |
| 28 | I mean , since it 's Christmas would n't it be a good idea to invoke a Sanity Clause against the entire Cabinet , committing the whole damn lot of them to some underfunded and desperate NHS asylum ? |
| 29 | What else would it be a good idea to do if you had something to do it with , about the temperature ? |
| 30 | ‘ Would it be a good idea , perhaps , if you went away somewhere ? ’ |