Example sentences of "it be [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 ?
23 Still , those who make it are a great bunch — and they know exactly what to expect — ‘ Holidays that Satisfy ’ — I 'll say .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Will it be a useful reference route map and a compass ?
27 Before we get on to this next item , would it be a suitable place to break for , time to break for coffee ?
28 Or will it be a worse society if it has been deceived , just for that reason alone , because it is never in people 's true interests to lie to them , even if they never discover the lie ?
29 Will it be a multiple choice or a written or a
30 Would n't it be a greater waste of money though now having got the thing there though to shift it out the way completely Dorothy ?
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