Example sentences of "it [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been the final confirmation of her suspicions ? |
| 2 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 3 | Had it been the other way round , and I was experiencing an Anglican church for the first time , the shock might have been even greater . |
| 4 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 5 | I know the soldier would have helped Russell had it been the other way around . |
| 6 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |
| 7 | A B-tree is balanced , in other words the tree is symmetrical so that all paths through it are the same length , so all leaf nodes appear on the same level , and carry no information . |
| 8 | Aunt Louise was a relation , and if she were going to drive anyone dotty should it be the trusting stranger with whom Celia had left her ‘ for three months only ’ ? ) |
| 9 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 10 | Plus could it be the ultimate indie bassist 's revenge ? |
| 11 | It is also important to examine the throat for the presence of gonococci ( by cultural methods ) , since , not only may it be the only site involved , but it is rather more difficult to eradicate the infection from this place . |
| 12 | ‘ Or can it be the other way round ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport . |
| 14 | It would not be in the serpentine shape in which local tradition and the folklore of sea monsters tend to cast the creature , nor would it be the individual guardian of the loch , the watery Cerberus , which some like to think of Nessie as being . |
| 15 | I believe it was your mother who said , Would n't it be the best thing ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Could it be the new adhesive we 've been using ? ’ asked the man suddenly . |
| 17 | ‘ Would it be the first time ? |
| 18 | Would it be the local society ? |
| 19 | ‘ Should it be the red carpet or the blue ? |
| 20 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 21 | Would it be the same worse less bad ? |
| 22 | ‘ Could it be the same person who goes to the house to pick up the post ? ’ |
| 23 | Well , why should n't it be the same horse , I say ? |
| 24 | ‘ Will it be the big house which is the showhouse ? ’ |
| 25 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 26 | Could it be the dazzling obviousness that these two petulant skaters are , below all that ice , besotted with other , because do n't opposites always attract ? |
| 27 | In the evening they went walking , hand in hand , as if it were the first love for each of them . |
| 28 | It were the first time I ever heard him do it . |
| 29 | However , some 25 feet down there is a side-door , which opens into passage 24 as if it were the eastern door in the Throne Room . |
| 30 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |