Example sentences of "it [verb] n't [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has n't been a problem . |
| 2 | It has n't been a very good day for me . ’ |
| 3 | Well it has n't been a complete loss . |
| 4 | Investment banking although this year it 's a very different difficult environment for investment banking particularly a house that concentrates on , on corporate finance er there has n't been a great deal of M and A activity and if , if there has it has n't been a very high erm very high ticket . |
| 5 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 6 | ‘ It has n't been a good start , has it ? ’ |
| 7 | You know , it 's a nice quiet time of the year , we 're up to peak and busy up till Christmas , but in January we are a bit quiet , and this year it has n't been a bit quiet . |
| 8 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 9 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 10 | It has n't been a waste of time and money . |
| 11 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 12 | I mean it 's just like Aston is , it is , is , it 's , it 's a university but it has n't been a university for that long , it was a technological institute before |
| 13 | Yeah , so , it has n't been a bad day , it 's been quite nice |
| 14 | It has n't been the most memorable of summers : let's hope the autumn brings more positive energy ( and not all of it chemically induced ) |
| 15 | Mavis has done her best , but it has n't been the same . ’ |
| 16 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |
| 17 | It has n't been an easy year for the mother of two grown-up children , as anxious pet-owners have been known to telephone at four o' clock in the morning to ask about their cats or dogs . |
| 18 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 19 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 20 | It had n't been a dream , or had it ? |
| 21 | But it had n't been a dream . |
| 22 | Fifteen years … would have been ten if it had n't been a gun … poor creature … |
| 23 | It had n't been a night they had lived through ; it had been the Dark Ages — all seven centuries of them , with wars and oppressions , visions and turbulences . |
| 24 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 25 | It had n't been a little panda , either , but a Rover 2600 , an ‘ Area car ’ . |
| 26 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 27 | It had n't been a particularly nice smile . |
| 28 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 29 | Rogers felt relieved : at least it had n't been a flamer . |
| 30 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |