Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [not/n't] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 4 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've done the checking you wanted , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ and it 's not been easy , I can tell you . |
| 6 | and it 's not been funny at all , he 's laughing about it but I 've had to cope with it |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 10 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |
| 11 | Edwin Pettigrew would have a single room , but it had not been possible to get more than one , which meant that Daisy would have to share with Sister Dew . |
| 12 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 13 | But it has n't been easy to organise . |
| 14 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 15 | Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ … |
| 16 | Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton . |
| 17 | It has always been able to impose penalties on parties who break the rules without permission , by the award of costs against them , but it has not been able to enforce the rules of its own volition . |
| 18 | Several studies have shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide was as little as half the present concentration at the peak of the latest Ice Age , but it has not been clear if this is cause or effect . |