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

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1 Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ?
2 That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party .
3 What had it been about ?
4 Well Ken , has it been worth it ?
5 The question was , had it been to Romania and back ?
6 A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years .
7 Safety from Angel One , whom he felt sure had intended to kill them , had n't it been for Grant 's timely arrival .
8 How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ?
9 He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone .
10 ‘ Well , what 's it been like — first day back ? ’
11 How long had it been like this , untouched by people , gradually decaying and changing with the wind and the weather ?
12 Er what 's the atmosphere like in Belfast , what 's it been like this week ?
13 There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years .
14 Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer .
15 Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success .
16 The SEC 's Rule 14e-3 , which derives validity from s.14(e) of the SEA 1934 , forms the basis of insider trading liability for tender offers , or , in British parlance , take-overs , and would probably , had it been in operation , covered the trading activities of both Newman and Chiarella .
17 In these circumstances MacDonald could not be treated as a cast-off glove — even had it been in Baldwin 's nature to do so .
18 Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under .
19 Had it been in administration , we would have put forward to our budget .
20 Has it been in there with the books ?
21 A " temporary services business " , which specifies that persons working for it are under its " direction , supervision and control " , is not an " employment business " in the terms of the Employment Agencies Act and is not subject to the regulations governing the operation of such businesses which the Act lays down .
22 Although some aspects of it are under review , under the ‘ care programme ’ initiative , it is not proposed to incorporate the mental health services in the first wave of changes planned in the home care delivered by the authorities .
23 Loch Ness and the creatures in it are at last yielding to thorough biological investigation .
24 And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’
25 The BBC is worried that this is a veiled hint that parts of it are to be commercialised and that cuts will make investigative programmes such as Panorama — which has occasionally angered the Government — impossible to make .
26 The very first indications of it are to be seen in the helplessness of a baby .
27 When public opinion is central to the fortunes of a government , unscrupulous expedients to manipulate it are to be expected .
28 The ruins of the medieval Berwick Castle were removed to make way for the station , and some of its stone was used in the construction of the bridge , though parts of it are of brick with stone facings .
29 This information and the decisions which emanate from it are of great importance , politically , economically and socially .
30 The state 's increasing insistence , for example , that what people study and how they study it are of government concern and to be directed at ends which a government finds acceptable is part of the character of our critical environment .
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