Example sentences of "it [been] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Had it been the final confirmation of her suspicions ? |
18 | 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 ! ) . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
21 | I know the soldier would have helped Russell had it been the other way around . |
22 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |