Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [art] " 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 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |
| 5 | ‘ Beauty and the changing attitudes to it are always a reflection of how the world changes . |
| 6 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 11 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 12 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it were otherwise the court system would simply collapse under the strain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That thing on her neck well it were n't a bite , cos it 'd have gone by now . |
| 17 | So we decided it were n't a good enough buy re he |
| 18 | Well it were n't a tenner each |
| 19 | It were n't a tenner each , must of been I would say about six quid each |
| 20 | It is hilarious , I seen it , Mary 's got a pirate and it 's er anyhow I re it were n't a brilliant recording like but it 's , you know , it 's watchable and it 's fantastic . |
| 21 | The owd horseman knew what he wanted ; and it were n't no use a-tryin' to tell him what to have . |
| 22 | It might have been good for the dockies , but it were n't no good for the lighterman . |
| 23 | It were n't no cheaper if they did were it ? |
| 24 | It were n't the dog I locked in the tractor-shed , that 's all I know . ’ |
| 25 | It were n't the way everyone said an ’ thought it was , you see , not by a long chalk . |
| 26 | there ai n't no muck on the root , it were n't the root , it were washed |
| 27 | it were n't the right one |
| 28 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 29 | There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China . |
| 30 | Evidence was reinterpreted that might seem to count against them : for example , the Earth 's long geological history , which seemed impossible if it were just a cooling sphere ; or the Sun 's apparently endless emission of energy , which was hard to explain in terms of its being made of coal , or fuelled by meteors , or contracting and giving out gravitational energy as heat and light . |