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 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If only it were just a story . ’ |
| 15 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 18 | If it were less an absurdity , the House of Commons would have to take it seriously . |
| 19 | If it were still the case that affray required that the incident should take place in public , the case would be cast-iron . |
| 20 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 21 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 22 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 23 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 24 | One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ? |
| 25 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 26 | And if it were only the future of the Conservative Party that was at stake I would probably agree that electoral chastening would be a good thing . |
| 27 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 28 | And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving . |
| 29 | Well , because it 's , it 's rather a case of the blind leading the the blind , erm |
| 30 | ‘ It 's rather a change , actually , ’ he murmured , ‘ to find a woman who does n't pick at her food and moan about endless diets . |