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

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1 Christ , how long has it been since I … ?
2 How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ?
3 How long had it been since she had let anyone come this close , comfort her , try to ease her fears ?
4 How long 's it been since I 've been there ?
5 How long 's it been since you went to Sainsbury 's ?
6 Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway .
7 There had been 6½ hours of fiercely-contested cricket on this fourth and final day , and yet it had seemed twice that much , so packed with incident had it been and so explosive in its continuous nature .
8 How can it be that here , on a north-facing cliff , with nothing between it and the North pole and situated more than 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , the vegetation can look like that .
9 Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ?
10 Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ?
11 Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ?
12 Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ?
13 Now , how can it be that believing can be ‘ reckoned ’ as righteousness ?
14 How can it be that Jesus could become sin for you and me ?
15 If a son or daughter commits a crime and is sentenced to imprisonment , the court will not allow an anxious father or mother to take their place , so how can it be that my sin can be taken by another ?
16 Could it be that he had invented the entire tableau , he wondered ?
17 And my beloved mother — can it be that she ever existed ?
18 Can it be that the tales I heard in Geneva were true ?
19 There is one astounding omission from this list — could it be that Glyndebourne forgot the anniversary ?
20 Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ?
21 Can it be that governments have in such circumstances authority to pass immoral and unjust laws ?
22 Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ?
23 But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality .
24 Or could it be that you are deft and capable in practical ways ( needed by a care assistant in social service , or as a nursing aide ) ?
25 Could it be that Albert 's eyes dulled a little ?
26 Could it be that the decision was taken in a temporary depression from drugs ?
27 How could it be that the cells that will form the gut and the bones and muscles are on the outside of the early embryo , yet they will form structures that are clearly on the inside of the animal ?
28 Could it be that the cytoplasm completely controls gene action ?
29 Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ?
30 At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel .
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