Example sentences of "it have n't be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’ |
| 2 | If he wants to do it his way and he succeeds then great , but so far it has n't been that successful . |
| 3 | dog you see , but er you can tell it has n't been that tough a winter because there 's still |
| 4 | It has n't been that busy , it 's not busy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very . |
| 8 | It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke . |
| 9 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 10 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 11 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 12 | For weeks he had pushed thoughts of her out of his mind , and it had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 13 | It had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To judge by his continued expression of smug amusement , it had n't been entirely successful . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | I think the officers really are to be congratulated , and erm , one ca n't sort of guess what could have happened if it had n't been so professional , but I suspect the fact that we won , what we 've won , is a result of the professionalism of our and I really would like to congratulate |
| 18 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 19 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 20 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 21 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 22 | If it had n't been so awful it would have been almost comical , the thought that Luke Calder had been virtually accused of kerb-crawling ! |
| 23 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 24 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 25 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 26 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 27 | Might have been summer if it had n't been so cold . |