Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been Dierdriu 's son ? |
| 2 | ‘ And has n't it been abuse now , six years later ? ’ |
| 3 | Had it been Alex Household who had been shot , the situation would have been different , because she so patently disapproved of him , but with Michael Banks as the victim , it was difficult to cast her in the role of murderer . |
| 4 | Or had it been triumph ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Had it been Cromwell ? |
| 8 | Had it been April , one could have understood . |
| 9 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 10 | Had it been Lady Isabella ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |
| 12 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 13 | He hacked his way through his cereal — Alf had been right — or had it been Bert ? |
| 14 | its busy busy for local sport at the moment … but one team struggling to make a go of it are Oxford Cheetahs speedway … news of them coming up now in our action round-up |
| 15 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 16 | The remains of a rare Roman lighthouse and the restored Anglo-Saxon church beside it are remainders of earlier times . |
| 17 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 18 | Inequality and the response to it are themes of many geographical and political studies . |
| 19 | Good comparison stars for it are J ( 5.6 ) and Q ( 4.7 ) . |
| 20 | On either side of it are wells which are never dry ; one is now the Museum 's wishing well . |
| 21 | But having said that of course , Brackley , they have nothing to lose ; looking at the two sides , the majority of the players would you believe it are ex of Banbury United a side , you can never keep out of the news Jane . |
| 22 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 23 | He reflected the view of my constituents when he said that crime and how to reduce it are matters for the Government . |
| 24 | It is easy to find , because it is usually visible with the naked eye at about magnitude 5 , and is in the same binocular field with Beta ; to either side of it are Tau ( 5.1 ) and Sigma ( 4.9 ) , which act as good comparisons , though Tau is of type K and has been suspected of slight variability . |
| 25 | In it are paintings which refer to some of the literary works which the group has mined for material in the past Kafka 's America and Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter as well as new ones such as Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland . |
| 26 | The fundamental one is that as a result of the mathematization of physical science , what importantly occurs in it are equations or formulae of several kinds , propositions to the effect that one set of magnitudes is related in a certain way to another set or sets . |
| 27 | Two of the best-remembered things in it are Emma 's adulterous drive in the curtained cab ( a passage found especially scandalous by right-thinkers ) , and the very last line of the novel — ‘ He has just received the Legion of Honour ’ — which confirms the bourgeois apotheosis of the pharmacist Homais . |
| 28 | At the Mediterranean end , the inhabitants on either side of it are Catalans and very aware of the historical and linguistic bonds which transcend the national frontier ; while at the northern , Atlantic end they are Basques , similarly aware of their distinctiveness as a people . |
| 29 | The only people we know who do it are Cosmetics to Go , the mail order firm that brings you such exuberant delights as Filboid Studge Asparagus Mask and Goop Liquid Eyeliner . |
| 30 | In it are examples of his installation work and some object sculptures , among them ‘ Bureau Couvert de Mules ’ of 1966 and another work from the Sixties which consists of a stuffed parrot in a glass case with an accompanying text and a tape-loop of sound . |