Example sentences of "it [verb] n't be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , yes — you see , it has n't been such a-long walk after all , ’ said Lady Selvedge . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | You know , it has n't been easy since — since Alison . |
| 7 | ‘ Although it has n't been one of the happiest experiences of my life either , ’ she added in a low voice . |
| 8 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 9 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 12 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 15 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 16 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 17 | And it had n't been fair of her to expect him to do so . |
| 18 | It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break . |
| 19 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |