Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think that 's why he has n't remarried , although it 's been ten years now … |
| 2 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 3 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 4 | This has no mass of its own , so the force that it carries is long range . |
| 5 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 6 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 7 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 8 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 9 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 10 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 11 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 12 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 13 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 14 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 15 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 16 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 17 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 18 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 19 | and it 's been good fun , they do want to come back |
| 20 | ‘ And it 's been six hours of torment for me . |
| 21 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 22 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 23 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 24 | I 've seen I 've seen it been down sub zeros outside and it 's been eighty degrees in our house . |
| 25 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 26 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 27 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 28 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 29 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 30 | If it 's been re-registered sort of thing , so there 's a big line in cars all . |