Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publication of the disclosed material during the recent criminal appeal hearing , even had it been total , would no more rid it of its prima facie immunity than had it been aired in disciplinary or criminal proceedings brought against the police officers concerned , the situation expressly envisaged in Makanjuola 's case . |
| 2 | Has it been swallowed by the frigid lands ? ’ |
| 3 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 4 | Not only has it been sailing in calm coastal waters , but it also has one of your sea-marshals on board . |
| 5 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 6 | A number of local studies have been undertaken on what the impact of the poll tax would be had it been implemented in the 1988 — 9 financial year . |
| 7 | In what ways has it been engendered in Dunrossness ? |
| 8 | the income arising to the trust has a foreign source and therefore had it been received by the beneficiary he would not have borne tax on it ; and 2. the benefit — the payment out by the trustees to the individual — is not received in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | If this is the case , why has it been denied in the past ? |
| 10 | He then said that the program would not have been patentable had it been stored on a floppy disk . |
| 11 | That strange feeling he had experienced in the hall : had it been repeated on the landing ? |
| 12 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 13 | Had it been blocked before this morning ? |
| 14 | It was less than an hour from dusk , and we would have camped there had it been left to me . |
| 15 | Had it been left at that , as she had originally been built , the Angelina , a typical example of the Tehandiri class , would not only have been striking but downright handsome . |
| 16 | Only very rarely has it been reported in the lung . |
| 17 | However , although this example reflects the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to think the sanction of positive repentance through to its logical conclusion , it also demonstrates just how powerful this sanction could be , had it been accompanied by just one further instruction — ‘ publish the repenting adverts in the original outlets ’ . |
| 18 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 19 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 20 | Police hunting the gang said yesterday : ‘ Had it been brought on stream the price of Pepsi in the city would have dropped by half . ’ |
| 21 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 22 | Has it been looked after and well maintained ? |
| 23 | Had it been closed by the authorities ( I used that word , not ‘ the malais ’ ) ? |
| 24 | well , er in a , in a sense it , it 's , it , it been known since |
| 25 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 26 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 27 | Has n't it been changed over the years to say different things from what the original writers intended ? |
| 28 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 29 | If a tilde ( ) is encountered in the print list , he numeric items which follow it are printed in hexadecimal . |
| 30 | The aims of the legislation and the expectations of those responsible for it are referred to in the following passage : |