Example sentences of "it [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't been good all week and that 's not fair , ’ said George . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | It has n't been easy . |
| 5 | I 've had — it has n't been easy , this past week . |
| 6 | You know , it has n't been easy since — since Alison . |
| 7 | It has n't been easy . |
| 8 | It has n't been easy . |
| 9 | ‘ It has n't been easy ’ she readily admits . |
| 10 | ‘ It has n't been easy ’ she readily admits . |
| 11 | It has n't been easy , but at Walton Heath his dream came true at last . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 16 | But it has n't been easy to organise . |
| 17 | But it has n't been easy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't think it has n't been interesting . ’ |
| 23 | As I said in Silvio 's office , do n't think it has n't been interesting , because — ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So social science has tended to ignore Freud 's books , but of course , it has n't been able to forget about Freud . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I know it has n't been bad ca n't complain can we ? |
| 28 | Rune 's tone was bland , his expression suggesting that if it had n't been impolite he would have challenged her rash assertion . |
| 29 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 30 | 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 . |