Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scrappy success has not been typical of Cardinal Vaughan 's start to the season . |
| 2 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 3 | Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature . |
| 4 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 5 | Jerking her head up , Polly stared at him , not quite certain how to react , for his tone had n't been one of admiration , but more a reluctant acknowledgement . |
| 6 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |