Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 2 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 3 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 4 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |
| 5 | As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've done the checking you wanted , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ and it 's not been easy , I can tell you . |
| 7 | and it 's not been funny at all , he 's laughing about it but I 've had to cope with it |
| 8 | and it 's only been open for what two or three years |
| 9 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's hard to believe the amount of work that 's gone on and it 's all been voluntary . ’ |
| 11 | Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 14 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 15 | And it has largely been unquestioned until recently in the work of most theorists of sex , from naturalists and Freudians to taxonomists like Alfred Kinsey ( in his concept of ‘ sexual outlet ’ ) and the research clinicians such as William Masters and Virginia Johnson ( in their descriptions of physiological responses ) . |
| 16 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 17 | There appears to be a wide variety of newspapers available to the public ( even though appearances deceive ) , and it has always been possible in principle ( if not in practice ) to found a new paper . |
| 18 | Marketing manager Rob Lucas said : ‘ We are fortunate that everyone knows the brand and it has always been popular , particularly with children . ’ |
| 19 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 20 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |