Example sentences of "it have [been] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World squad matches in New Zealand were great and I felt in fine fettle there but after injury in Australia it has been quite a struggle . |
| 2 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 3 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 4 | It had been nearly a year ago , when the postman had delivered a letter postmarked Venice to the little cottage in Wales she had shared with her grandmother . |
| 5 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 6 | When local police were told of two female bodies on the beach , it had been just a nuisance . |
| 7 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 8 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 9 | Craig stared into the fire , it had been over a week since he had escaped from the prison , lying in the back of the van , smelling the fresh mouthwatering tang of bread and listening to the clip clop of the horses ’ hooves . |
| 10 | It had been over a year since Katherine had seen him and again she was struck by the magnetism of those coal dark eyes , the indolence of his gestures as he took her hand and playfully brought it to his lips . |
| 11 | It had been scarcely a quarter smoked ! |
| 12 | It had been quite a good summer in some ways . |
| 13 | Katherine 's lips moved in a grim smile as she recalled some of the details — it had been quite a scandal . |
| 14 | It had been quite a day . |
| 15 | It had been quite a year , in more ways than one … |
| 16 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |
| 17 | It had been almost a year since she had found herself alone with a man in a bedroom , voluntarily , at least . |
| 18 | It had been almost a minute before Joe replied , ‘ Yes , Carrie . ’ |
| 19 | It had been almost a relief when , just after her eighth birthday , her father had disappeared . |
| 20 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 21 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 22 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 23 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 24 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 25 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 26 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 27 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 28 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 29 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 30 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |