Example sentences of "it [verb] not been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 2 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 3 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 4 | It has not been a productive summer for Viv Richards . |
| 5 | For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains . |
| 6 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 7 | It has not been an easy ride , however . |
| 8 | Yet even those outside the profession will know it has not been an easy road recently . |
| 9 | IT HAS not been the best of weeks for managers , a thought with which Graham Souness might agree . |
| 10 | ‘ It has n't been a good start , has it ? ’ |
| 11 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 12 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 13 | Well it has n't been a complete loss . |
| 14 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , so , it has n't been a bad day , it 's been quite nice |
| 16 | Mavis has done her best , but it has n't been the same . ’ |
| 17 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |
| 18 | It has n't been an easy year for the mother of two grown-up children , as anxious pet-owners have been known to telephone at four o' clock in the morning to ask about their cats or dogs . |
| 19 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 20 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 21 | It had not been a good day for the Magistrate . |
| 22 | It had not been a pleasant summer . |
| 23 | Priestley was to recall Payday as being a remarkable film but of course it had not been a typical Chaplin film . |
| 24 | It had not been a serious proposition . |
| 25 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 26 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 27 | But it had not been a smooth process . |
| 28 | We flew back to Heathrow ; it had not been a happy trip for me , full of niggling and snide remarks . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it had not been a happy visit . |
| 30 | It had not been a pretty sight . |