Example sentences of "it [been] a [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 . |