Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that .
2	That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty .
3	However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox .
4	The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis .
5	However , this model is simple enough for one to be able to make numerous predictions from it , and hence it has been easy to submit the model to experimental tests .
6	EDS has stayed out of the public administration market in Italy because , ‘ up until now it 's been risky , ’ Ribas says , adding that ‘ until the system of favours [ bribes and kickbacks ] is brought under control , we 're more comfortable in the private sector . ’
7	Up until now it has been difficult to have the best of both worlds when it comes to running one of the more expensive 4x4 off-road vehicles .
8	A lump sum , we wo n't ask for it back , and maybe it 's been useful for them to adapt their lives in the meantime .
9	Mark David well it could of been Mark Andrew and then it 'd been Mat at least your name , your initials do n't spell any thing rude
10	But generally it 's been unnecessary for us to have much contact .
11	By 1829 , the year of Owen 's return from America , the organisation by John Doherty of workers in cotton spinning into his Grand National Union of the United Kingdom had marked an attempt to make trade union structure national , whereas hitherto it had been local .
12	His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ?

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