Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some exceptional sites it has been necessary to reconstruct part of the site and the finds for display in order that they should be fully understood by visitors . |
| 2 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 3 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 4 | Even so , with members of the cast having so many other commitments it 's been difficult to get everyone together . |
| 5 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |