Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome . |
| 2 | I was aware that the risks were considerable : had it been otherwise the Danakil country would already have been thoroughly explored . |
| 3 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 4 | ‘ Beauty and the changing attitudes to it are always a reflection of how the world changes . |
| 5 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 6 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 7 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 8 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 9 | A disclaimer would not be effective if it were merely contained in the small print of a contract or if it were simply the subject of a casual remark by the salesman during negotiations . |
| 10 | If it were otherwise the court system would simply collapse under the strain . |
| 11 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 12 | Well it were n't a tenner each |
| 13 | It were n't a tenner each , must of been I would say about six quid each |
| 14 | That thing on her neck well it were n't a bite , cos it 'd have gone by now . |
| 15 | The owd horseman knew what he wanted ; and it were n't no use a-tryin' to tell him what to have . |
| 16 | It were n't the way everyone said an ’ thought it was , you see , not by a long chalk . |
| 17 | there ai n't no muck on the root , it were n't the root , it were washed |
| 18 | It were n't the dog I locked in the tractor-shed , that 's all I know . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 20 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 21 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 22 | ‘ If only it were just a story . ’ |
| 23 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 24 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 25 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 26 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 27 | If , then , you received it , why do you boast , as if it were not a gift ? ’ |
| 28 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 29 | Suppose it were not an accident . |
| 30 | If it were less an absurdity , the House of Commons would have to take it seriously . |