Example sentences of "it [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 5 | ‘ Had it been a total shock to you or had you suspected anything ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Had it been a good flight ? |
| 10 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 11 | Has it been a distinctive political culture , citizens being prepared to acquiesce in and , when called on , to support the demands made of them by government ? |
| 12 | Has n't it been a lovely day ? |
| 13 | Had it been a different matter I would of course have asked your permission . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Had it been a single pilot operation , the need to fly IFR would have resulted in a very tired individual . |
| 16 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 17 | Has it been a happy one that augurs well for the ‘ marriage ’ of your two households ? |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 20 | Had it been the final confirmation of her suspicions ? |
| 21 | 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 ! ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 24 | I know the soldier would have helped Russell had it been the other way around . |
| 25 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |
| 26 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 27 | Still , those who make it are a great bunch — and they know exactly what to expect — ‘ Holidays that Satisfy ’ — I 'll say . |
| 28 | All I 've ever got out of it are a few funny smells and the tap-tap of my father 's stick . |
| 29 | It is a big job and a merry one ; and our friends and comrades in it are the best in the world . |
| 30 | However , it is more likely that the marital conflict which precedes the separation and the stressful events which follow it are the real sources of difficulty . |