Example sentences of "it [vb past] n't been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 2 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 3 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 4 | For weeks he had pushed thoughts of her out of his mind , and it had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 5 | It had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 6 | To judge by his continued expression of smug amusement , it had n't been entirely successful . |
| 7 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 8 | I think the officers really are to be congratulated , and erm , one ca n't sort of guess what could have happened if it had n't been so professional , but I suspect the fact that we won , what we 've won , is a result of the professionalism of our and I really would like to congratulate |
| 9 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 10 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 11 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 12 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 13 | If it had n't been so awful it would have been almost comical , the thought that Luke Calder had been virtually accused of kerb-crawling ! |
| 14 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 15 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 16 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 17 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 18 | Might have been summer if it had n't been so cold . |