Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably .
2 This tendency has steadily increased , and alongside it there has been a different but related tendency , as combine and corporate ownership have become much more common in book publishing .
3 Without the use of anything but the simplest words , this sentence leaves its meaning entirely clear , and yet it still has an emotional quality that can not be forgotten .
4 A century ago Norway had perhaps 20 cattle breeds but today it effectively has only the Norwegian Red .
5 Shortage of money is an obvious problem , but then it always has been .
6 No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods .
7 It made no sense to her , but then it never had .
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