Example sentences of "[be] [pron] it have " in BNC.

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1 Though others envy what they can not give , for had the gift been theirs it had not here thus grown .
2 They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country .
3 If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ?
4 That 's who it 's been . ’
5 So that it 's it it has certainly got a lot of value an exercise like that , even with entirely good conditions .
6 That 's it it 's been done .
7 That 's what it had said on the door .
8 Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more .
9 I asked the under-foreman what I 'd done to deserve this , he says You 're not on your own , there 's er a quarter to go this week and good many next , so that 's what it 's come to .
10 It 's sales driven , O K , we 're not going to say that nobody else is important , we need all the other members of the , the company , but it is sales driven , O K , it 's what it 's made of .
11 That 's what it 's got
12 Well er , the Tuesday is supposed to be furniture restoration , that 's what it 's been
13 Well that 's what it 's blooming well got for in n it ?
14 The group is called Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company and er corny is n't it .
15 You get a prize for telling us it 's Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company .
16 All said Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company .
17 ‘ I 've no idea who 's behind the conspiracy — because that 's what it has to be .
18 Six months of 12-hour days , six days a week — that 's what it has taken to film the only four Wexford stories not previously adapted for TV .
19 ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’
20 But that 's what it has come to .
21 Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use .
22 Sex was the second principal category covered by the code — this is what it had to say on that subject as well as Vulgarity , Obscenity , profanity , Costume and Dances :
23 The miracle , if that is what it had been , was something that she 'd never discussed with anyone .
24 But the extension of the tax — for that is what it had become — to inland areas aroused resentment and opposition .
25 It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere .
26 I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament .
27 This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years .
28 But that is what it has become in many churches where it is surrounded by a po-faced atmosphere akin to a dentist 's waiting room .
29 I say sex , not love-making , for that is what it has become , just the same old act .
30 The RISC-based — R3000 or R3000A presumably , since that is what it has used up to now — XfaceC or XfC , is designed to bring colour graphics capabilities to users that require a compact , high resolution , easily transportable X terminal .
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