Example sentences of "it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been the final confirmation of her suspicions ? |
| 2 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 3 | Had it been the other way round , and I was experiencing an Anglican church for the first time , the shock might have been even greater . |
| 4 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 5 | I know the soldier would have helped Russell had it been the other way around . |
| 6 | Had it been the biggest mistake of her life ? |
| 7 | It is a big job and a merry one ; and our friends and comrades in it are the best in the world . |
| 8 | However , it is more likely that the marital conflict which precedes the separation and the stressful events which follow it are the real sources of difficulty . |
| 9 | Below it are the two brilliant Pointers , Alpha and Beta Centauri ; Alpha , the nearest of all the bright stars beyond the Sun , is well above zero magnitude , so that only Sirius and Canopus outshine it . |
| 10 | This term is in some respects a misnomer , for within it are the hepatic lipocytes ( fat storing or Ito cells ) and a specialised basement membrane-like matrix , which consists predominantly of type IV collagen , laminin , and proteoglycans . |
| 11 | Beyond it are the royal conveniences . |
| 12 | The specification of a product and the allocation of resources to develop it are the later stages of a series of planning loops . |
| 13 | The people who gravitate to it are the so-called " funsters " — people attracted to the entertainment business . |
| 14 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 15 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |
| 16 | A B-tree is balanced , in other words the tree is symmetrical so that all paths through it are the same length , so all leaf nodes appear on the same level , and carry no information . |
| 17 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
| 18 | And the thing which really makes it are the three chimneys , without those , I think the rest of it would be okay , but not terribly exciting . |
| 19 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 20 | Aunt Louise was a relation , and if she were going to drive anyone dotty should it be the trusting stranger with whom Celia had left her ‘ for three months only ’ ? ) |
| 21 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 22 | Plus could it be the ultimate indie bassist 's revenge ? |
| 23 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 24 | Should it be the proud Russian eagle , or the old hammer and sickle ? |
| 25 | It is also important to examine the throat for the presence of gonococci ( by cultural methods ) , since , not only may it be the only site involved , but it is rather more difficult to eradicate the infection from this place . |
| 26 | ‘ Or can it be the other way round ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport . |
| 28 | It would not be in the serpentine shape in which local tradition and the folklore of sea monsters tend to cast the creature , nor would it be the individual guardian of the loch , the watery Cerberus , which some like to think of Nessie as being . |
| 29 | Could it be the mysterious international assassin they call ‘ The Silver Fox ’ ? |
| 30 | I believe it was your mother who said , Would n't it be the best thing ? ’ |