Example sentences of "it be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been an invite , |
| 2 | ‘ He would have played last weekend had it been an international . ’ |
| 3 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 4 | ( Had it been an excess of antiquarks , however , we would simply have named antiquarks quarks , and quarks antiquarks . ) |
| 5 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The developments which threaten the World Cup as we have come to know it are an increased concentration of the economic wealth of football in a handful of countries , the more intrusive role of television and its hand-maiden , advertising , and the blurring of national identities created by the political upheavals around the world . |
| 8 | 1 The established constitution and the rules that are part of it are an aspect of the constraining context that operates on everyday politics . |
| 9 | And should n't it be an earless anyhow ? |
| 10 | Could it be an incident in a Masterplan that we do not yet comprehend ? |
| 11 | Nor need it be an exclusively female activity , as many people would have us believe . |
| 12 | Oh , and finally , might it be an idea for a political writer to do the interview ? |
| 13 | Not only would it be an obvious place to look but she was uneasy about what might be living underneath it . |
| 14 | No doubt an account of a hostel for the homeless would be audacious and arresting , but would it be an authentic scenario of life lived on the edge of ordinary extremity ? |
| 15 | Erm would it be an idea perhaps to put something up on notice boards that the conference people are going to see . |
| 16 | Erm first of all er would you , if er if you became Euro candidate er the unequivocally support the objectors to this motorway and secondly , would it be an embarrassment to you having to take the same line as Gary on the matter . |
| 17 | So must it be an inconclusive , ill-tempered parting between the friends ? |
| 18 | Should it be an endoscopic , radiological , pathological or manometric definition ? |
| 19 | Second , would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover . |
| 20 | At low levels of excitation this structure , outlined in Fig. 1 , will obviously behave as if it were an inefficient transformer . |
| 21 | THE title of the exhibition of African , Asian and Caribbean art at the Hayward Gallery is The Other Story , as though it were an account of an alternative and continuous tradition , independent of Western European and American modern art . |
| 22 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 23 | She was at first incensed at the idea — as if she had no more to do than pack up guns , as if it were an easy matter to send such an object at all , as if she existed only for his convenience — and then amused . |
| 24 | It is simply not enough to accept , almost as if it were an understandable and reasonable attitude , that Mary preferred to remain in France , and dream of the English throne , rather than return to Scotland . |
| 25 | A brief filed with the Texas Supreme Court said : ‘ For the purposes of paragraph ( 3 ) , an organisation described in paragraph ( 2 ) shall be deemed to include an organisation described in section 501(c) ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , or ( 6 ) which would be described in paragraph ( 2 ) if it were an organisation described in section 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) . |
| 26 | Rural community autarchy , even if it were an acceptable aim , is a Utopian dream . |
| 27 | Jeane Russell smiled , and crushed the man 's hand as if it were an eggshell . |
| 28 | Between calls she murmured inaudibly to her companion and stroked her platinum-blonde hair-do as if it were an ailing pet . |
| 29 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 30 | It is generally assumed that pus-cells in the urethra are synonymous with infection and the pus-cell is treated vigorously from Bath to Bangkok and from Memphis to Madras as if it were an infectious organism itself . |