Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long had it been since she had let anyone come this close , comfort her , try to ease her fears ? |
| 2 | How long 's it been since I 've been there ? |
| 3 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 4 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 5 | Could n't it be that she had needed to loathe him so that she could smother the awakening of her real feelings for him ? |
| 6 | Can it be that you have no idea of the power a young , nubile girl can exercise over a young , impressionable male ? ’ |
| 7 | Could it be that he had invented the entire tableau , he wondered ? |
| 8 | Could it be that he 'd resented Doreen 's attack on herself ? |
| 9 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 10 | If the school BCG programme is suspended will it be because everyone has received a somewhat different , recombinant form thirteen years earlier ? |
| 11 | But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ? |
| 12 | And Francis would know something was happening : he would not leave it be until he 'd extracted every detail , he never did . |
| 13 | So that 's one tenth and that 's one tenth and then what I 'd like you to do is work it out as a fraction what fraction of how many degrees would it be if you had a tenth of three hundred and sixty degrees , how many degrees would that come to ? |
| 14 | Yeah it were after I 'd had summat to eat . |
| 15 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 16 | Could , could I just say that Homeward , I mean there the , the parking is obviously a problem , that that is something that could go by , but I mean , I went to , the last time I went to Homeward , and walked out , and it 's before we had all this rain , my shoes were under water . |
| 17 | It 's since he 's been |
| 18 | It 's since I 've met people you know , they all seem jolly . |
| 19 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 20 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 21 | Not you , it 's that it 's , it 's been on show . |
| 22 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 23 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 24 | It 's that you 've got to put on , so |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy . |
| 26 | If Armstrong has a disadvantage , then it 's that he has n't got a passenger seat . |
| 27 | It 's once you 've allocated it it 's erm you know it 's actually gone from your from your calculation . |
| 28 | It 's whether we 've |
| 29 | But it 's whether you 've got the right way is n't it ? |
| 30 | Paul : ‘ It 's 'cos nobody 's got enough fingers in Brighouse , everybody 's got the same surname , y'see , so they had to look to Rastrick to help 'em out . |