Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [not/n't] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dead Germans lying around had obviously not been quick enough . |
| 2 | In this particular case , of course , I had been set a slightly extraordinary task , but I had nevertheless not been neglectful to incorporate ‘ margins ’ wherever possible . |
| 3 | They had just not been prepared to support a lost cause . |
| 4 | That drastic formula meant , for instance , that the ballet turned out to be full of controlled balances on one leg , which until then she had just not been able to sustain . |
| 5 | He had still not been able to talk to Majorie about the adoption . |
| 6 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |
| 7 | Robert had still not been able to discover the headmaster 's first name , although on occasions Malik had asked to be addressed as Abdul , while making it clear that this was not his name . |
| 8 | The letters had made her angry , though at first she had simply not been able to believe them . |
| 9 | Growing deafer , moreover , as they had certainly not been deaf as babies . |
| 10 | He had certainly not been confident when he arrived in Augusta and in the end his suspicions about his form were confirmed . |
| 11 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |