Example sentences of "n't been [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 2 | Her mother had n't been too pleased with Kevin as a son-in-law . |
| 3 | And some of the great families had n't been too happy about nomes being able to go where they pleased , without having to ask permission . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 6 | 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 . |