Example sentences of "it [verb] n't [be] [adj] " 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 It has n't been good all week and that 's not fair , ’ said George .
3 Well for example one of the things , one of the consistent kinds of changes that seems to have occurred is an attempt to deny polytheism , but there are lots of places in the Bible where it has n't been consistent and where God on occasions speaks in the Bible erm as if other gods could exist , like I , I , I 'm the Lord , I 'm a jealous god .
4 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
5 It has n't been easy .
6 I 've had — it has n't been easy , this past week .
7 You know , it has n't been easy since — since Alison .
8 It has n't been easy .
9 It has n't been easy .
10 It has n't been easy ’ she readily admits .
11 It has n't been easy ’ she readily admits .
12 It has n't been easy , but at Walton Heath his dream came true at last .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 But it has n't been easy .
17 But it has n't been easy to organise .
18 But it has n't been easy .
19 As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year .
20 ‘ Although it has n't been one of the happiest experiences of my life either , ’ she added in a low voice .
21 Even though it has n't been domesticated , it is something of a large version of the pig above , and on parts of its eponymous island it has also hybridised with European wild boars : ie , at one end of Java the pigs are Javan warties , at the other end they 're wild boars , and in the middle they 're half and half .
22 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 .
23 The whole er test of whether this was or was not a successful proposal , was whether you marry the environment and the economy , and sadly it has n't been married , and sadly the Treasury has yet again won .
24 We 've got certain rules that say all children must sit certain exams at certain times , it has n't been possible to do it in the labs
25 But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week .
26 ‘ Do n't think it has n't been interesting . ’
27 As I said in Silvio 's office , do n't think it has n't been interesting , because — ’
28 It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour .
29 , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no .
30 Mossad is different , but it 's fair to assume that if it has n't been able to put someone into Iraq to kill Saddam , then it 's next to impossible to do so .
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