Example sentences of "it be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware that the risks were considerable : had it been otherwise the Danakil country would already have been thoroughly explored . |
| 2 | Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome . |
| 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 | Or , if it axed Neil Kinnock , junked Clause 4 , cut the trade union links and purged the remaining socialists , might it have a chance — or would it be just the old SDP ? |
| 5 | Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’ |
| 6 | But is Expo 92 the ‘ world of information ’ its organisers claim — or will it be merely the greatest funfair in Spanish history , a fiesta open every day until 4 am ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If it were otherwise the court system would simply collapse under the strain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It were n't the dog I locked in the tractor-shed , that 's all I know . ’ |
| 11 | It were n't the way everyone said an ’ thought it was , you see , not by a long chalk . |
| 12 | there ai n't no muck on the root , it were n't the root , it were washed |
| 13 | it were n't the right one |
| 14 | ‘ An ’ it were just the same then . |
| 15 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 16 | Er er it were just the same on a motorcycle the faster he 'll go the better they 'd like it ! |
| 17 | Suppose it were not the whole thing but part of a pattern ? |
| 18 | If it were still the case that affray required that the incident should take place in public , the case would be cast-iron . |
| 19 | The vendor will then be in a similar position as if it were still the original tenant under the lease and it will remain liable if an assignee defaults unless the landlord releases to vendor in the licence to assign . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the contrary , they saw the empire as the basis of Britain 's claim to world power status , and their commitment to exporting self-government — which they wrote about as if it were merely the current expression of the British administrative genius — was secondary to this . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 25 | Not that it 's impossible — indeed , it 's rather the sort of thing Oliver might do — but I 've somehow stopped believing most of what he says . |
| 26 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 27 | It 's already the most successful in the whole north of England . ’ |
| 28 | It 's already the only place in Britain where eleven year olds are learning Japanese under the National Curriculum . |
| 29 | When he accidentally gets talking to women who have children , it 's practically the first question he asks them — it 's the first test they face . |
| 30 | But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa . |