Example sentences of "[pron] not been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 2 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 3 | I might have worked it out sooner had she not been so prickly lately . ’ |
| 4 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 5 | Have there not been too many people in then ? |
| 6 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 7 | The ground got steadily hillier , and here and there rock outcrops stood out which , had they not been so near to towns , he would have been tempted to investigate . |
| 8 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 9 | This could have been unintentionally hilarious had it not been so dreary . |
| 10 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
| 11 | Perhaps , had he not been so ill , he would have come round . |
| 12 | And had he not been perfectly willing , of course , to hit a woman every bit as hard as he would have struck a man . |
| 13 | Had he not been as eager to see her as she him ? |