Example sentences of "it be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 2 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 3 | But had n't it been a mistake though , he thought , was n't it more pointless than most evenings ? |
| 4 | Had n't it been a mistake to let that Benny go to Dublin on her own after all ? |
| 5 | Had it been a mistake to include them ? |
| 6 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 7 | The tour is almost over , but has it been a success . |
| 8 | Has it been a nuisance having them ? |
| 9 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 10 | Had it been a boy , he would have been Arthur , after that toast of all good Cornishmen , the once and future king ; but as she was a girl , she was Jennifer , which was as close as need be to Guinevere . |
| 11 | Had it been a nightmare ? |
| 12 | Had it been a dream ? |
| 13 | You may wish to explore whether had it been a business transaction it would have been included in the profit and loss account . |
| 14 | Yeah but how many , how many times has it been a shop ? |
| 15 | Had it been a lark on the dead man 's part ? |
| 16 | Had it been a prophecy , or had Luke merely implanted the idea in her head ? |
| 17 | Has it been a result of clear theological arguments ? |
| 18 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
| 19 | Had it been a series of small fields now merged into one ten-acre field ? |
| 20 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 21 | Had it been a figment of imagination , brought about with the increasing gloom , and the aura of the surrounding dereliction ? |
| 22 | Had it been a woman in there , a woman staying with him , sleeping with him ? |
| 23 | ( Had it been an excess of antiquarks , however , we would simply have named antiquarks quarks , and quarks antiquarks . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’ |
| 26 | Had it been an invite , |
| 27 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 28 | Had it been the London underground I might have panicked . |
| 29 | Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion . |
| 30 | In other words , the very development by which IBM could have gained enormously had it been the initiator led , a few short and bumpy years later , to the same results . |