Example sentences of "[verb] n't [be] very [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody did suggest that we ask Betty 's husband , but if he has n't been very helpful with the auditor , perhaps he 's not very keen on . |
| 2 | According to the papers , he had n't been very complimentary about me recently . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved . |
| 6 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 7 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |