Example sentences of "n't [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 2 | But the year has n't been all doom and gloom . |
| 3 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 4 | At first , Mrs Caswell had n't been all that keen , probably because she did n't want anybody dying on the premises . |
| 5 | It probably had n't been all that good-looking in any case — it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods , cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage . |
| 6 | Well I ai n't been all that well recently . |
| 7 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 8 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 9 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 10 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 11 | By now he and Twoflower were on horseback — mounts had n't been that hard to obtain . |
| 12 | Our luck has n't been that hot so far . |
| 13 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 14 | There have n't been many films that show Dublin as it really is . |
| 15 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 16 | there have n't been many ice hockey sims on the 64 — the only two I can recall ( Powerplay Hockey and Superstar Ice Hockey ) were a very long time ago . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 18 | Specialist plumbers will also be needed , but Nick Booth smiles wryly and says that , so far , there have n't been many takers . |
| 19 | There has n't been many now . |
| 20 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 21 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 22 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |
| 23 | It had n't been such a cold night , what had happened ? |
| 24 | If he had n't been such a lousy husband I might not have got myself in so deep … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Ah , yes — you see , it has n't been such a-long walk after all , ’ said Lady Selvedge . |
| 26 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 27 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 28 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 29 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 30 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |