Example sentences of "have n't [be] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 32 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 33 | If it had n't been so awful it would have been almost comical , the thought that Luke Calder had been virtually accused of kerb-crawling ! |
| 34 | The first person she met when she walked through the backstage door was Josh , and , if the situation had n't been so terrible , his expression — which somehow managed to combine outrage , amazement and sheer blessed relief — would have been positively comical . |
| 35 | Might have been summer if it had n't been so cold . |
| 36 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 37 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 38 | She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me . |
| 39 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 40 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 41 | She had n't been so lucky . |
| 42 | There was love in that sofa , I said to George , love for which the Morrisons would have paid a fortune if he had n't been so prissy . |
| 43 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 44 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 45 | If the situation had n't been so horrendous , his question would have made her laugh . |
| 46 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 47 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 48 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 49 | I wonder how he would have responded if you had n't been so angry/polite/upset by the loss of your children ? " |
| 50 | I just wish that Sam had n't been so generous with the wine , though . |
| 51 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 52 | I have n't been so much involved in it as perhaps some other people and I do n't pretend to be an expert . |
| 53 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 54 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |