Example sentences of "and it [verb] not been [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 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've done the checking you wanted , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ and it 's not been easy , I can tell you . |
| 7 | and it 's not been funny at all , he 's laughing about it but I 've had to cope with it |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |