Example sentences of "it have [not/n't] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help .
2 It has not been sufficiently sensitive to the issues which divide and potentially destroy us , or to the need to renounce the legacy of patriarchal relations in our own behaviour .
3 He answered cryptically but not very informatively ; ‘ It has not been though expedient for the Grand Junction to widen the locks . ’
4 The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability .
5 But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter .
6 However , although the WDA has remained , it has not been as interventionist in terms of urban policy as has the SDA .
7 ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said .
8 ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’
9 If he wants to do it his way and he succeeds then great , but so far it has n't been that successful .
10 dog you see , but er you can tell it has n't been that tough a winter because there 's still
11 It has n't been that busy , it 's not busy .
12 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 .
13 And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well .
14 Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very .
15 It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke .
16 This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful .
17 Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team .
18 In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages .
19 It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour .
20 Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce .
21 Yet it had not been especially noble of me .
22 It had not been fully dark when she had been flying .
23 It had n't been as bad as she had feared .
24 She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been .
25 It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time .
26 For weeks he had pushed thoughts of her out of his mind , and it had n't been too difficult at first .
27 It had n't been too difficult at first .
28 The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days .
29 To judge by his continued expression of smug amusement , it had n't been entirely successful .
30 Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful !
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