Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware that the risks were considerable : had it been otherwise the Danakil country would already have been thoroughly explored . |
| 2 | Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome . |
| 3 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 4 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |
| 5 | ‘ Beauty and the changing attitudes to it are always a reflection of how the world changes . |
| 6 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 7 | Or , if it axed Neil Kinnock , junked Clause 4 , cut the trade union links and purged the remaining socialists , might it have a chance — or would it be just the old SDP ? |
| 8 | Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’ |
| 9 | But is Expo 92 the ‘ world of information ’ its organisers claim — or will it be merely the greatest funfair in Spanish history , a fiesta open every day until 4 am ? |
| 10 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 11 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 12 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 13 | A disclaimer would not be effective if it were merely contained in the small print of a contract or if it were simply the subject of a casual remark by the salesman during negotiations . |
| 14 | If it were otherwise the court system would simply collapse under the strain . |
| 15 | The defenders pushed at the makeshift scaling ladders , and at least one went crashing back down into the crowd below ; but those who exposed themselves to do it were immediately the target of a dozen archers . |
| 16 | There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China . |
| 17 | Evidence was reinterpreted that might seem to count against them : for example , the Earth 's long geological history , which seemed impossible if it were just a cooling sphere ; or the Sun 's apparently endless emission of energy , which was hard to explain in terms of its being made of coal , or fuelled by meteors , or contracting and giving out gravitational energy as heat and light . |
| 18 | ‘ If only it were just a story . ’ |
| 19 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 20 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 21 | It were just a labouring job . |
| 22 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 23 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 24 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 25 | ‘ An ’ it were just the same then . |
| 26 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 27 | Er er it were just the same on a motorcycle the faster he 'll go the better they 'd like it ! |
| 28 | If it were less an absurdity , the House of Commons would have to take it seriously . |
| 29 | If it were still the case that affray required that the incident should take place in public , the case would be cast-iron . |
| 30 | The vendor will then be in a similar position as if it were still the original tenant under the lease and it will remain liable if an assignee defaults unless the landlord releases to vendor in the licence to assign . |