Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 2 | It has not been easy on three hours sleep a night . |
| 3 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 4 | It has not been possible for the American navy to leave behind the assets that it had developed there , but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will certainly take note of the point that the hon. Lady raised about Ministry of Defence assets in the area . |
| 5 | If , because of confidentiality or for other reasons , it has not been possible for the seller to make all enquiries that it otherwise would , the seller would be well advised to stipulate in the contract or disclosure letter what enquiries have been made . |
| 6 | At dusk , it has not been unknown for us to traipse round the dykeside field boundaries collecting slugs , a pretty grisly business . |
| 7 | Upon the accession taking effect , the Basic Law of the FRG … shall enter into force in the Länder of Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia and in that part of Land Berlin where it has not been valid to date , subject to the amendments arising from Article 4 , unless otherwise provided in this Treaty . |
| 8 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 9 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 10 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 11 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 12 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 13 | You know , it has n't been easy since — since Alison . |
| 14 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 15 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 16 | It had not been necessary for him to be there . |
| 17 | It had not been easy without existing contacts in the region , and their reports would have to be treated with caution for a while , but on the whole he felt he had achieved as much as could have been expected . |
| 18 | Raynor paused , looking down into the half-closed eyes , and saw Grainne smile , and saw , as well , that despite her apparent tranquillity , she had been nervous , and that it had not been easy for her to come to his room . |
| 19 | It had not been easy for him to gain readmission . |
| 20 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 21 | It had not been reasonable for the Royal Mail to use their dismissals as an example of enforcement of the new rules . |
| 22 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 23 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 24 | It had n't been easy at first ; he was n't her father and all she remembered of her own father was blows and shouting . |
| 25 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 26 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 27 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 28 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 29 | It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not been easy for the chairman and his board seeing us stuck on the bottom of the table , ’ said Clough . |