Example sentences of "[verb] n't been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literati and the US army had n't been the only imports into Europe from across the Atlantic . |
| 2 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 3 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 4 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 5 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 6 | But we have n't been the only ones to combat that , there have been white lesbians as well who have taken offence at that particularly say working class white lesbians or white lesbians with disabilities who have also felt that particular issues affecting them have been marginalised . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 8 | They have n't been the sole centre of attention — no one is . |
| 9 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |