Example sentences of "it had [not/n't] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 3 | It had not been a good day for the Magistrate . |
| 4 | It had not been a pleasant summer . |
| 5 | Priestley was to recall Payday as being a remarkable film but of course it had not been a typical Chaplin film . |
| 6 | It had not been a serious proposition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 9 | But it had not been a smooth process . |
| 10 | We flew back to Heathrow ; it had not been a happy trip for me , full of niggling and snide remarks . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it had not been a happy visit . |
| 12 | It had not been a pretty sight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It had not been a large legacy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 17 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 18 | It had n't been a busy day in London town , but there was no mention of anybody falling through windows in Leytonstone . |
| 19 | It had n't been a little panda , either , but a Rover 2600 , an ‘ Area car ’ . |