Example sentences of "and it [vb past] not [be] [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 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |