Example sentences of "it [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been that bad ? |
| 2 | When the pressgang came to Aberdeen last year ’ ( had it been last year ? |
| 3 | Until bedtime , no further kiss would be offered in which , had it been , she might , or might not , have detected the scent of soap . |
| 4 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 5 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 6 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 7 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 8 | THE pace of political change has been rapid here , but for no one has it been faster than for Mr Jan Carnogursky , who will be a deputy prime minister . |
| 9 | Had it been April , one could have understood . |
| 10 | The court was driven to conclude that the jury would not necessarily have convicted had it been correctly directed . |
| 11 | Had it been Cromwell ? |
| 12 | Had it been happy ? |
| 13 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 14 | Had it been anyone other than Marty , I 'd never have spent every weekend preparing and refining the script , then repeating it as I did . |
| 15 | Had it been there always ? |
| 16 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 17 | But had n't it been a mistake though , he thought , was n't it more pointless than most evenings ? |
| 18 | Why should Kathleen not visit the nursery garden , why had it been necessary to make the explanation about the geranium plants , why had she flushed with guilt and fear and concealment ? |
| 19 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 20 | Anyway , how 's it been ? ’ |
| 21 | As Pascal observes : ‘ Cleopatra 's nose : had it been shorter , the whole aspect of the world would have been altered . ’ |
| 22 | Had it been a dream ? |
| 23 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 24 | ‘ Our bowling was not consistent in the World Cup , nor has it been here , ’ lamented Procter . |
| 25 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 26 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |
| 27 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 28 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 29 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 30 | ‘ I would not , quite frankly , have involved you in this policy disagreement between us , Mike , had it been possible to avoid doing so . |