Example sentences of "it [verb] n't been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 You know , it has n't been easy since — since Alison .
6 But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week .
7 They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee .
8 It had n't been easy at first ; he was n't her father and all she remembered of her own father was blows and shouting .
9 She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here .
10 it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time
11 She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old .
12 And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so .
13 It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break .
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