Example sentences of "they have [not/n't] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when things have turned up and they 've not been quite right he 's known |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 4 | But then again , not really , if they had n't been THAT close all along anyway . |
| 5 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 6 | They had not been so good to her ; she had lost too many things , too many friends , too much of herself . |
| 7 | Since Christmas they had not been so friendly . |
| 8 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They have n't been very helpful . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Their involvement in those parts of the management plan in which they have not been previously interested will be taken on and driven by the possibly irresistible surge of the whole school 's development . |
| 13 | ‘ They have not been very helpful . |
| 14 | Maybe I 'm being a bit harsh on philosophers , but they have not been very kind to me . |
| 15 | They have not been sufficiently sensitive to the fact that the message received may differ substantially from that which they imagined they had delivered . |