Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [not/n't] been very " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 2 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 3 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 4 | Today 's town patrols have not been very busy , but as it is hot and it 's summer , they are n't too concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |