Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [not/n't] be so [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 | I wanted to run away , and if that window had not been so high I believe I would have jumped through it . |
| 3 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 4 | Unfortunately some of the rhetoric of this recent announcement has not been so enlightened , but has been couched in hard , aggressive language . |
| 5 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 6 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps her behaviour on Sunday night had not been so foolish after all . |
| 9 | This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women . |
| 10 | The Zeppelin attack left ten people dead in the city , and scores wounded : if the Germans ' bomb-aiming had not been so lousy , the toll could have included many of the sleeping deaf children in Donaldson 's . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s . |
| 13 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 14 | Care has not been so tender for the eiderdown duck , which has perished in large numbers due to oil slicks in its Iceland habitat , as European demand for its fluffy down , mainly used in bedding , increases . |
| 15 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If the situation had n't been so horrendous , his question would have made her laugh . |
| 18 | But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude . |
| 19 | The relationship of women within the family and to waged work throughout the twentieth century has not been so clear cut . |
| 20 | Just behind the estate which he had saved , the land had not been so lucky . |
| 21 | I wanted to vomit and would have if my belly had not been so empty . |
| 22 | But if their rescuer had not been so swift … |
| 23 | It was enough that he should receive food and shelter most nights ; many of his family had not been so lucky . |