Example sentences of "[vb past] not [been] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 2 | No wonder her father had not been well these last few weeks , he was worried about money . |
| 3 | Father must be in his sixties now , and had not been well this winter . |
| 4 | Before she could think how to respond without sounding defensive he was saying : ‘ You are angry with yourself , remorseful because if you had not been late this thing would never have happened . |
| 5 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 6 | Tolonen had not been wrong all those years ago when he had recognised this in Karr . |
| 7 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |