Example sentences of "[pron] have not been very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 2 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 3 | I have not been very kind to UK banks or bankers recently , so they may be pleased to find their incompetence echoed , or even exceeded , abroad . |
| 4 | They have n't been very helpful . |
| 5 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ They have not been very helpful . |
| 7 | Maybe I 'm being a bit harsh on philosophers , but they have not been very kind to me . |