Example sentences of "it have n't [been] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background . |
| 2 | Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road . |
| 3 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 4 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 7 | But it had n't been so very red , more a reddish brown . |
| 8 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 9 | If it had n't been so fucking cold . |
| 10 | Might have been summer if it had n't been so cold . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | That would have been comical if it had n't been so downright offensive . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |