Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been a lark on the dead man 's part ? |
| 2 | Has it been a result of clear theological arguments ? |
| 3 | Had it been a series of small fields now merged into one ten-acre field ? |
| 4 | Had it been a figment of imagination , brought about with the increasing gloom , and the aura of the surrounding dereliction ? |
| 5 | Had it been a woman in there , a woman staying with him , sleeping with him ? |
| 6 | Behind it are a couple of clapboard cabins , their windows gone and their planks left to loosen in a wind that never quite dies . |
| 7 | This question and the five after it are a test on the previous two copies of the Journal . |
| 8 | The main and more or less stable plate that dominates the area is known , hardly surprisingly , as the Pacific Plate ; surrounding it are a number of equally large , or smaller plates such as the Australian , the Nazca , the North American and the Cocos Plate . |
| 9 | ‘ Would n't it be a bit like going behind Celia 's back ? ’ |
| 10 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 11 | Exercise , gently at first , and let it be a part of your programme of change . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) It is not part of the bankruptcy process , nor should it be a part of the bankruptcy scheme , to ensure that bankrupts are prosecuted and the court should shrink from a construction of the statute that lends support to any such result . |
| 13 | But where was the resolve a year ago , and where will it be a year from now to address fundamental inequalities that date back to slavery ? |
| 14 | Would it be a problem to you ? |
| 15 | Would not it be a recipe for disaster in the offshore oil industry , in agriculture and in the hotel and catering industry ? |
| 16 | It was also the anticipation of being hit that was worrying ; would it be a punch in the guts , or the scarred knuckles of a Spaniard 's fist in the eye ? |
| 17 | Would it be a time of wonder , or would it be the old conflicts continued ? |
| 18 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 19 | Would not it be a disaster for part-time workers , women workers and , indeed , all workers in Britain ? |
| 20 | Would not it be a disaster for business throughout the country suddenly to be confronted by a long list of new regulations and constraints ? |
| 21 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 22 | Nor can it be a matter of the effects he intends to cause in hearers , for one may say something with a definite meaning , with all sorts of different such intentions , and , in any case , the causal theory as advanced by Stevenson is concerned with the actual causal potency of language , not with what is intended . |
| 23 | Would it be a substitute for inner changes you need to make ? |
| 24 | Two questions you will constantly be asked are : What can be done with the old wreck ? and What will it cost and wo n't it be a waste of taxpayers ' money ? |
| 25 | How would it be a waste of time ? |
| 26 | If a Member on one side of the House sought to simulate anger by crossing the floor , punching an opponent on the nose and destroying his paper , would it be a breach of privilege for a court of law to proceed against him ? |
| 27 | We are frustrated that London Weighting has consistently been used as if it were a concession to our demands . |
| 28 | At the same time the wife 's role was to serve , and this modest withdrawal was as it were a part of the service . |
| 29 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 30 | Instead they are to put on , as if it were a suit of new clothes , the new humanity that Is brought to them in Christ and is constantly renewed by a deepening knowledge of Christ , into the Creator 's original image in man , a likeness to God himself : hence the ‘ compassion , kindness , lowliness , meekness , patience , forbearance ’ , love , peace and gratitude of which he goes onto speak ( Col. 3:1,5–16 ) . |