Example sentences of "[pron] not been so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have worked it out sooner had she not been so prickly lately . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 5 | This could have been unintentionally hilarious had it not been so dreary . |
| 6 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
| 7 | Perhaps , had he not been so ill , he would have come round . |