Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 2 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 3 | Only a month before Mikael had been the proudest chief in Abyssinia and it must have been a bitter moment for him to be led in triumph before the hated Shoans . |
| 4 | In general it led to a concern to examine what was wrong with Great Britain that it should have been unable to fight effectively against apparently fragile opposition . |
| 5 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 6 | The signature looked like Spiggy Meu but it could have been Spiggy Lee . |
| 7 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 8 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 9 | He had , of course , ensured this by demanding the presence of a Polish envoy to discuss them in Berlin before it would have been possible for anyone to get there . |