Example sentences of "it have not been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 2 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 3 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 4 | It has not been a productive summer for Viv Richards . |
| 5 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 6 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 7 | It had not been a good day for the Magistrate . |
| 8 | It had not been a pleasant summer . |
| 9 | Priestley was to recall Payday as being a remarkable film but of course it had not been a typical Chaplin film . |
| 10 | It had not been a serious proposition . |
| 11 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 12 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 13 | But it had not been a smooth process . |
| 14 | We flew back to Heathrow ; it had not been a happy trip for me , full of niggling and snide remarks . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it had not been a happy visit . |
| 16 | It had not been a pretty sight . |
| 17 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 18 | It had not been a large legacy . |
| 19 | The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's because it 's not been a good year , due to fluctuating temperatures . ’ |