Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] been the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 IT HAS not been the best of weeks for managers , a thought with which Graham Souness might agree .
2 Mavis has done her best , but it has n't been the same . ’
3 Charles Marovitz in It had not been the only reviewer from the left dissatisfied with the Royal Shakespeare Company 's US on the Vietnam war .
4 Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it .
5 It had n't been the best of weekends .
6 It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’
7 It 's not been the best of years so far for Jimmy White , who was dubbed the bridesmaid of snooker after losing his fourth world championship final in May .
8 It 's not been the best of times for us result-wise recently which makes it an even better performance . ’
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