Example sentences of "it has [adv] [been] [art] [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 For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains .
6 Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve .
7 It has not been an easy ride , however .
8 Yet even those outside the profession will know it has not been an easy road recently .
9 IT HAS not been the best of weeks for managers , a thought with which Graham Souness might agree .
10 It has n't been a good start , has it ? ’
11 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
12 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
13 Well it has n't been a complete loss .
14 It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’
15 Yeah , so , it has n't been a bad day , it 's been quite nice
16 Mavis has done her best , but it has n't been the same . ’
17 It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service .
18 It has n't been an easy year for the mother of two grown-up children , as anxious pet-owners have been known to telephone at four o' clock in the morning to ask about their cats or dogs .
19 It has just been a long battle for us all .
20 The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics .
21 ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate …
22 It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt .
23 It has indeed been a brilliant season for the Ward Park club , with Alex Lightbody returning from the British Isles championships in Worthing in July with the singles title under his belt .
24 The Queen goes on : ‘ It has indeed been a sombre year .
25 As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year .
26 It has certainly been a bad start , ’ said Richard Lynch in BIFU 's London office .
27 It has long been the largest voluntary nature conservation organisation in Europe .
28 On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century .
29 It has long been the French preference to maintain the Council as the primary decision-making body of the Community , and indeed to reinforce its role ; the Germans want greater powers for the Parliament in Strasbourg .
30 As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one , in that season beloved of medieval lyricists .
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