Example sentences of "it [verb] not [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evaluation of its performance is hazardous because it has not generally been subject to commercial practices and norms [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |
| 2 | There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] . |
| 3 | However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being . |
| 4 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 5 | It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters . |
| 6 | Now it has not always been easy to warm to England 's rugby followers , whose customary note is somewhere between a bray and a bellow . |
| 7 | but it has not always been easy . |
| 8 | It has not always been obvious that the natural way to classify animals was hierarchical . |
| 9 | Secondly , a continuing and , in some ways , irresolvable problem is how to balance the twin aims of conservation and recreation since , despite the Sandford recommendations , it has not always been clear where the emphasis should be ( Cripps 1980 ) . |
| 10 | The owner Janet Stokes says , ‘ Of course , it has n't always been easy for Karen . |
| 11 | WHILE BRYAN AND KEITH are now enjoying the fruits of success , it has n't always been easy . |
| 12 | It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away . |
| 13 | It had not always been possible for him to observe the phenomenon on his own . |
| 14 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 15 | It had n't always been that way . |
| 16 | It 's not always been easy . |
| 17 | I 've tried , but it 's not always been easy . |