Example sentences of "have n't [be] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be . |
| 2 | Greatly to her relief , the first visit of the little girls to the hospital to see their parents had n't been nearly as traumatic as Laura had feared . |
| 3 | One-Dimensional Chess had n't been all that difficult once they worked out the rules , and now their first answer was being carried or transmitted or processed-whatever-by the small attendant with the little red boots . |
| 4 | That would have been comical if it had n't been so downright offensive . |
| 5 | But it had n't been so very red , more a reddish brown . |
| 6 | The very notion of becoming friendly with this arrogant , pig-headed latter-day Viking would have made her laugh if the situation had n't been so horribly unfunny . |
| 7 | In fact , my recent diet had n't been quite so reckless . |
| 8 | Surely he had n't been quite so irritating as a watchkeeping officer in the Lanark ? |
| 9 | And Shelley lay back that night , watching the fan sway round and round above her , and wishing that Rosie 's certainty had n't been quite so fervent . |
| 10 | Not noticing the church had n't been quite as crass as he 'd feared , because whatever else the bomb had done , it had blown the church apart . |
| 11 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 12 | Certainly I hope they take that into consideration when we do the er annual report and what we 've done because we have n't been half as active as what we have in the past , |
| 13 | Now firmly perched at the top of the Hollywood ‘ A-list ’ of actresses , it seems strange that her career has been made up entirely of films that really have n't been all that good . |