Example sentences of "[pron] have not been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 2 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 3 | Mm that 's what I 've cos I 've not been very busy I 've been picking , you know like a few peanuts there 's chocolate peanuts , there 's |
| 4 | Someone had not been very intelligent , he thought . |
| 5 | ‘ I have given 100pc but my play has been affected because I have not been mentally happy . ’ |
| 6 | I have not been very kind to UK banks or bankers recently , so they may be pleased to find their incompetence echoed , or even exceeded , abroad . |
| 7 | I have not been really warm for days . |
| 8 | I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year . |
| 9 | But also that any who might peruse this essay from a research perspective will feel that I have not been too cavalier in the implications that I draw from the results of their studies . |
| 10 | Air from outside the hole , which has not been so depleted of ozone , then enters the region and the mixing of the air masses dissipates the hole ( Rowland , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 12 | Churchill himself had not been notably concerned with translating the general principle into practical realities . |
| 13 | Ye know it not , and ye have not been there any more than we ’ . |
| 14 | The responsibility for the reviews rests with the review officer who , under section 40(1) ( b ) , must be an officer of at least rank of inspector and who has not been directly involved in the investigation . |
| 15 | She has not been directly involved in the Orkney situation , but she did lecture on ritual or satanic abuse at a two-day seminar in Aberdeen in November 1990 . |
| 16 | She found herself regretting she 'd not been entirely open with him . |
| 17 | She had not been favourably impressed by Trevor 's arrogant display of bad manners , but kept her thoughts to herself . |
| 18 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 19 | It was the final proof that perhaps , after all , she had not been as inferior to her sister as she had imagined . |
| 20 | The judge , having heard evidence , concluded that because of her condition and the effect of the narcotic medication she had not been fully rational when she signed the refusal form . |
| 21 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 22 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 23 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 24 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 25 | And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time . |
| 26 | She was still shaken that anyone should calmly kiss her when she had not been long widowed , but his remark stung her into retort . |
| 27 | She had brought a couple of dresses with her because she had not been too sure about the heat . |
| 28 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 29 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 30 | After that time , you have no liability — provided you have not been grossly negligent with your card . |