Example sentences of "it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publication of the disclosed material during the recent criminal appeal hearing , even had it been total , would no more rid it of its prima facie immunity than had it been aired in disciplinary or criminal proceedings brought against the police officers concerned , the situation expressly envisaged in Makanjuola 's case . |
| 2 | Has it been swallowed by the frigid lands ? ’ |
| 3 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 4 | Had it been realised just how large the audience had become and how fast it was growing , greater attention might have been paid to broadcasting during 1961 to 1968 . |
| 5 | ‘ But do n't you think Sunil might have been in danger had it been realised that he had the run of the Admiral 's computer ? ’ |
| 6 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |
| 7 | Not only has it been sailing in calm coastal waters , but it also has one of your sea-marshals on board . |
| 8 | Has it been posted ? |
| 9 | Has it been moved ? |
| 10 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 11 | How had it been achieved ? |
| 12 | If so , has it been confirmed that they will pay full compensation for this privilege ? |
| 13 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 14 | Oh , it been gone too , stop breathing too long , yeah |
| 15 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 16 | So has it been cooked ? |
| 17 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |
| 18 | Conference , hundreds of young women could be suffering from br breast cancer with little chance of it been detected . |
| 19 | A number of local studies have been undertaken on what the impact of the poll tax would be had it been implemented in the 1988 — 9 financial year . |
| 20 | Or I should say , has it been resumed ? |
| 21 | Had it been watered ? |
| 22 | Has it been watered today ? |
| 23 | In what ways has it been engendered in Dunrossness ? |
| 24 | the income arising to the trust has a foreign source and therefore had it been received by the beneficiary he would not have borne tax on it ; and 2. the benefit — the payment out by the trustees to the individual — is not received in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 26 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 27 | Rarely , though , has it been demonstrated that only one species is associated with dispersal , in contrast to several examples known of one-to-one pollinator-pollinated relationships . |
| 28 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 29 | How 's it been grown ? |
| 30 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |