Example sentences of "[coord] had it be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 2 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 3 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 4 | Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ? |
| 5 | Have you ever had to , have you ever had to actually , have you had any major things that have gone wrong in the house or had it been okay ? |
| 6 | Or had it been triumph ? |
| 7 | Or had it been done deliberately ? |
| 8 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 9 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 10 | Or had it been so unimaginable ? |
| 11 | He hacked his way through his cereal — Alf had been right — or had it been Bert ? |
| 12 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 13 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 14 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 15 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 16 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 17 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 18 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |