Example sentences of "[noun] have n't be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If Marie had n't been so desperate to escape from that room , she would n't have suggested taking Bella out in her wheelchair . |
| 3 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 4 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 5 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 6 | Agatha had n't been unduly concerned . |
| 7 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 8 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 9 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |
| 10 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 11 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 12 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 13 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 14 | Apparently the school dessert had n't been too popular with the children : the remains of the custard had been put out in a bin , and this had attracted that great opportunist , the starling . |
| 15 | And some of the great families had n't been too happy about nomes being able to go where they pleased , without having to ask permission . |
| 16 | I just wish that Sam had n't been so generous with the wine , though . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Maxim had n't been entirely wrong about the Fight Game . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Up to now her life has n't been altogether rosy . |
| 21 | She said it looked as though Francis had n't been home all night and she was worried . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If the situation had n't been so horrendous , his question would have made her laugh . |
| 24 | Apparently his escape from the rout of Winchester had n't been so easy . |
| 25 | Chris has n't been too bad though , his ears have been reasonable . |
| 26 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 27 | So Guido had n't been entirely wrong , after all ! |
| 28 | Her mother had n't been too pleased with Kevin as a son-in-law . |