Example sentences of "they have n't be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 2 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 3 | But then again , not really , if they had n't been THAT close all along anyway . |
| 4 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 5 | They have n't been very helpful . |
| 6 | 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 . |