Example sentences of "have n't [be] so [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 3 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had n't been so awkward about it I doubt if that constable would even have taken my name and address . |
| 5 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 6 | If he had n't been so hasty in consoling himself with Lexy , she would have rushed ahead with her usual blind enthusiasm , forgetting all the lessons her broken engagement had taught her . |
| 7 | If you had n't been so boring in the pub I would n't have left in such a temper ! ’ |
| 8 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 9 | She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me . |
| 10 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 11 | I wonder how he would have responded if you had n't been so angry/polite/upset by the loss of your children ? " |
| 12 | I just wish that Sam had n't been so generous with the wine , though . |
| 13 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 14 | 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 . |