Example sentences of "it be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Our bowling was not consistent in the World Cup , nor has it been here , ’ lamented Procter .
2 How long has it been here ?
3 Had it been otherwise , the USSR would not have acted .
4 I was aware that the risks were considerable : had it been otherwise the Danakil country would already have been thoroughly explored .
5 Had it been otherwise the battle might well have had a different outcome .
6 Had it been properly directed there would have been a good contract and A would have been liable in damages to B for not delivering the horse .
7 The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years .
8 Had it been there always ?
9 How long has it been there ? ’
10 how long ago , I mean how long has it been there ?
11 Yeah has it been too obvious ?
12 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 .
13 Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ?
14 It is style that is the Navy 's hallmark , and nowhere in its long history has it been more evident than in those laconic naval signals in which the maximum humorous or dramatic impact is made in the minimum number of words .
15 Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience .
16 Now , few can afford to discard the eighties equivalent of disposable fashion , the market stall tat from East End sweat shops , but for those with the readies to spend on real flash ( these are the ones who know that LV means Louis Vuitton as well as Luncheon Voucher ) never has it been more important to make a clear and expensive statement about the level of personal well-being and survival .
17 ‘ How long 's it been now ? ’
18 Cardinal Suenens pointed out to him that although no one could say he had no right to produce Humanae Vitae on his own , it would have had more credibility had it been collegially prepared .
19 Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms .
20 ‘ And how long has it been so far ? ’
21 Or had it been so unimaginable ?
22 Never has it been so important for museums to prove themselves popular .
23 so what happened to all this Yeltsin thing right , has has it been so much build up , speculation of the West , you say thirty years of build up on our part is being wasted , we 've really got nothing to fear of the Russians ?
24 Well how difficult a season has it been so far , I mean for instance , in the minor County Championship a lot of matches were drawn I think that last season you probably would have won ?
25 He said little , as might have been expected , although one of his obiter dicta is remarkable both for its potential value , had it been publicly known , to the Soviet apologists of 1939–40 , and for the slovenliness , almost the vulgarity , of language for the occasion .
26 Has it been accurately recorded ?
27 Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort .
28 Had it been that bad ?
29 For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) .
30 The court was driven to conclude that the jury would not necessarily have convicted had it been correctly directed .
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