Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 2 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 3 | But had n't it been a mistake though , he thought , was n't it more pointless than most evenings ? |
| 4 | Had n't it been a mistake to let that Benny go to Dublin on her own after all ? |
| 5 | Had it been a mistake to include them ? |
| 6 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 7 | The tour is almost over , but has it been a success . |
| 8 | Has it been a nuisance having them ? |
| 9 | Had it been a boy , he would have been Arthur , after that toast of all good Cornishmen , the once and future king ; but as she was a girl , she was Jennifer , which was as close as need be to Guinevere . |
| 10 | Had it been a nightmare ? |
| 11 | Had it been a dream ? |
| 12 | You may wish to explore whether had it been a business transaction it would have been included in the profit and loss account . |
| 13 | Yeah but how many , how many times has it been a shop ? |
| 14 | Had it been a lark on the dead man 's part ? |
| 15 | Had it been a prophecy , or had Luke merely implanted the idea in her head ? |
| 16 | Has it been a result of clear theological arguments ? |
| 17 | Had it been a figment of imagination , brought about with the increasing gloom , and the aura of the surrounding dereliction ? |
| 18 | Had it been a woman in there , a woman staying with him , sleeping with him ? |
| 19 | Behind it are a couple of clapboard cabins , their windows gone and their planks left to loosen in a wind that never quite dies . |
| 20 | This question and the five after it are a test on the previous two copies of the Journal . |
| 21 | The main and more or less stable plate that dominates the area is known , hardly surprisingly , as the Pacific Plate ; surrounding it are a number of equally large , or smaller plates such as the Australian , the Nazca , the North American and the Cocos Plate . |
| 22 | Could it be a coincidence that this huge increase came after the formation of a new police policy designed to encourage victims of violence to report ? |
| 23 | ‘ Would n't it be a bit like going behind Celia 's back ? ’ |
| 24 | But , because it was so obvious , would it be a yorker ? |
| 25 | Could it be a sign ? |
| 26 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 27 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
| 28 | Or could it be a boy 's ? |
| 29 | The Life of Edward the Confessor , written some fifty years later , claims that when she was pregnant with him all the men of England took an oath to accept the child as king should it be a boy , while the Norman Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni of c.1053-4 alleges that he was anointed and consecrated king as a boy . |
| 30 | Exercise , gently at first , and let it be a part of your programme of change . |