Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been rather nice if it had n't just been a joke . |
| 2 | Alix admitted what Liz already knew , that she and Sebastian had been less than happy , that the idyll had been less golden than it looked . |
| 3 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 4 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 5 | ( a ) Would Jeremiah Allen 's company have been so successful if it had certified boilers but not insured them as well ? |
| 6 | any income chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise ( first limb ) ; and 2. any income which would have been so chargeable if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) . |
| 7 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 8 | After all , before he had proposed , she had not seen so very much of Havvie , and she had been so flattered that it had not struck her how banal his conversation was , and how limited . |
| 9 | Traditionally Asiatics had been employed east of Suez and hired on " Asiatic Articles of Agreement " , a practice which seems to have been generally acceptable since it involved sailing chiefly in Indian and Far Eastern waters . |
| 10 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 11 | Political and financial considerations were probably responsible for keeping the Staple at Calais ; in strictly economic terms it might have been more advantageous if it had been moved closer to the rising Dutch cloth towns . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have been more excited if it had been Shirley Bassey , ’ Miss Horrocks , 28 , tells me . |
| 13 | ‘ It would have been more interesting if it had been more explicit , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Maybe I should have been more tactful but it did n't seem to occur to me . |
| 15 | Taken as a whole , the cost of capital in Japan in 1988–93 will not have been as low as it seemed . |
| 16 | Rose Brady 's attention had been as unexpected as it had been sudden and welcome . |
| 17 | We 've been really quiet since it started . |
| 18 | I thought the shoulder of lamb would be much nicer and it looked nice and fresh ! |
| 19 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 20 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 21 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 22 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 23 | I took the cliff road and the wind could be so fierce that it blew me off my bike more than once . |
| 24 | In fact the lymphangiogram turned out to be less arduous than it sounded . |
| 25 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 26 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 27 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 28 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 29 | I 'm just sorry that it had to be Oldham . ’ |
| 30 | The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities . |