Example sentences of "it [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 2 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 3 | Had it been the other way round , and I was experiencing an Anglican church for the first time , the shock might have been even greater . |
| 4 | Had it been the director with a retained shareholding of 30 shares who had died on 31 December 1986 , his estate too would have had the benefit of business assets relief , but at a lower percentage deduction . |
| 5 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 6 | In other words , the very development by which IBM could have gained enormously had it been the initiator led , a few short and bumpy years later , to the same results . |
| 7 | Had it been the truth — that damaged wrist ? |
| 8 | Had it been the final confirmation of her suspicions ? |
| 9 | Had it been the London underground I might have panicked . |
| 10 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |
| 11 | Had it been the form that all agencies were not mentioned , this may have been acceptable , but to be forced to listen to a litany of other agency names — not least Barkers Trident — without a single mention of our own was deplorable . |
| 12 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 13 | I know the soldier would have helped Russell had it been the other way around . |
| 14 | Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion . |
| 15 | However , the reaction is extremely complex and current ideas about it are the subject of hot debate . |
| 16 | The JB Tele is a simple merger of Tele and Strat features and the only obvious elements of James Burton-ness about it are the Paisley finish and its eminent suitability for recording studio work . |
| 17 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |
| 18 | No wonder Britain is a country heading for Third World status and just about the only people who are doing well in it are the Bailiffs . |
| 19 | A B-tree is balanced , in other words the tree is symmetrical so that all paths through it are the same length , so all leaf nodes appear on the same level , and carry no information . |
| 20 | Below it are the two brilliant Pointers , Alpha and Beta Centauri ; Alpha , the nearest of all the bright stars beyond the Sun , is well above zero magnitude , so that only Sirius and Canopus outshine it . |
| 21 | The people who gravitate to it are the so-called " funsters " — people attracted to the entertainment business . |
| 22 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
| 23 | The most important aspect of it are the trees that still line the hedgerows even after the depredations of Dutch elm disease . |
| 24 | The graph is connected if any two nodes in it are the ends of a path . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've got the equipment down here at the training centre but the only people who have the knowledge of how to use it are the staff . |
| 26 | Treasure and the maps to locate it are the stuff we dream of , whether the treasure be a golden Celtic torque or a Roman pottery shard is not as important , perhaps , as the quest and excitement of making the find . |
| 27 | Beyond it are the royal conveniences . |
| 28 | It is a big job and a merry one ; and our friends and comrades in it are the best in the world . |
| 29 | This animation of a plane has six cels in it , and the only things that move on it are the propeller and the pilot 's scarf . |
| 30 | The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity . |