Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 2 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 3 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 4 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 5 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 6 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 7 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 8 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 9 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 10 | ‘ We were pleased with the way our campaign went , and we are sure that it helped to improve sales at a difficult time . ’ |
| 11 | Cox argued that the interception had been unlawful because it did not meet the published criteria regulating such interceptions . |
| 12 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 13 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 14 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 15 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 16 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 17 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 18 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 19 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 20 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 21 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 22 | Fifteen years … would have been ten if it had n't been a gun … poor creature … |
| 23 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 24 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it embarrassed you … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it did n't provide a job for you , ’ he said , relieved , and looked round for Amanda , who had used the surface tension of the moment to walk away . |
| 27 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 28 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 29 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 30 | Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ? |