Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been realised just how large the audience had become and how fast it was growing , greater attention might have been paid to broadcasting during 1961 to 1968 . |
| 2 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 3 | Oh , it been gone too , stop breathing too long , yeah |
| 4 | Has it been watered today ? |
| 5 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 6 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 7 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 8 | At the same time , I can not help but wonder whether his performance would have sounded very different had it been recorded somewhat earlier in his career ? |
| 9 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 10 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 11 | well why was n't it been done earlier ? |
| 12 | Or had it been done deliberately ? |
| 13 | ‘ Has it been done long ? ’ |
| 14 | See that back door , had it been applied well , the paint I would have just rubbed it down . |
| 15 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 16 | The major one is that the wing , had it been left there , would have snagged on the underside of the Kilcharran as it surfaced and tilted the fuselage , maybe to so acute an angle as to make access to this damned bomb difficult or impossible . ’ |
| 17 | Variety commented on Madigan 's Millions that , ‘ had it been released earlier , it might have finished him … |
| 18 | Maître Binoche estimates it could have fetched FFr300 million had it been allowed out . |
| 19 | When Archelaos died he had begun an intervention in Thessaly which , had it been carried through , might have pre-empted Philip 's operations in the 350s . |
| 20 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 21 | How had it been handed over ? |
| 22 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 23 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 24 | In the cooler air of the upper atmosphere , the chemical reactions which destroy it are slowed down , thereby enhancing its greenhouse effect . |
| 25 | The card for a Runefang is included in Warhammer Battle Magic , but the rules for it are repeated below for your convenience . |
| 26 | Peggy Sue naturally has six different kinds of bread options for toast , while the choices of preserves to go on it are enumerated practically to the power of 10 . |
| 27 | In simpler creatures , granules of it are distributed evenly throughout the egg ; in a frog 's egg , it is concentrated at one end ; and in a bird 's egg it initially fills the greater part of the shell . |
| 28 | The points in it are distributed randomly , so it contains no information which could be learned by any process . |
| 29 | The cleared bank balance for the close of business on the current day can be forecast with some precision , because most of the events which influence it are known today . |
| 30 | Can Making Belfast Work be improved or should it be shut down to make way for alternative policies ? |