Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been new information , it would have been presented independently in the predicate , because this is where new information normally occurs in English : Heseltine has been appointed as Minister of the Environment . |
| 2 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 3 | Yeah , outside , it 's like my pram , I mean , I was , Stacey was going in hospital last year to have her adeno adenoids out and Sue was having him and I thought well , he was too big for his carrycot , but take the pram down and he 's got nothing to sleep in and er , I put him in it , it been six months since it was do well since he started using it , so I give that a good going over and the pram wheels come up lovely |
| 4 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 5 | When the pressgang came to Aberdeen last year ’ ( had it been last year ? |
| 6 | Had it been any night other than Wednesday , he would have staggered out . |
| 7 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 8 | That tension is still with us , but overlaid on it are two others . |
| 9 | The workers who defend it are all sisters and all sterile . |
| 10 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 11 | Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community . |
| 12 | Lexical retrieval : the lexicon is searched , and retrieved from it are abstract codes representing the content words ( nouns , verbs , adjectives , some adverbs ) that the message level representation specifies — in our example , codes representing the words boy , girl , flower , and hit . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the extent to which we are loved , our degree of significance and the way we perceive it are different things . |
| 14 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 15 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 16 | There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . |
| 17 | The police sent in the mallet to see if the stains on it are human blood . |
| 18 | The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions . |
| 19 | It is the club 's notepaper and written on it are these words : |
| 20 | Changes in the provision of health care and increasing awareness of the demoralising effects of our traditional system on the students going through it are driving changes , and we may be poised on the brink of a steep acceleration in the number of schools willing to make radical changes in their courses . |
| 21 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 22 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |
| 23 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 24 | Was the Universe destined to go on expanding forever , or might it be that gravity would eventually pull all the galaxies back together again until there was a ‘ Big Crunch ’ — later to be followed by a new Big Bang ? |
| 25 | Could it be that Europeanism is in direct proportion to dissatisfaction with one 's own political institutions ? |
| 26 | Would it be that head of the family ? or the coffin maker ? |
| 27 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 28 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 29 | Might it be that living with Phillis had turned him patsy , a dope to any skirt ? |
| 30 | Could it be that Mathilde and her father had … |