Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] n't [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although it has n't been one of the happiest experiences of my life either , ’ she added in a low voice . |
| 2 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 3 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 6 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 7 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 8 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 9 | Rune 's tone was bland , his expression suggesting that if it had n't been impolite he would have challenged her rash assertion . |
| 10 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 11 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 12 | Nenna knew that , if it had n't been disloyal , Richard would have appealed to her to do or say something . |
| 13 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 14 | Mossad is different , but it 's fair to assume that if it has n't been able to put someone into Iraq to kill Saddam , then it 's next to impossible to do so . |
| 15 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |
| 16 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 17 | But it has n't been easy to organise . |
| 18 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 19 | , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no . |
| 20 | Even though it has n't been domesticated , it is something of a large version of the pig above , and on parts of its eponymous island it has also hybridised with European wild boars : ie , at one end of Java the pigs are Javan warties , at the other end they 're wild boars , and in the middle they 're half and half . |