Example sentences of "[vb base] n't been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In oth other words , there have n't been particularly good value acquisitions that are strategically suitable for us . |
2 | There have been times when in order to maintain that kind of standard , you had to do things that have n't been particularly popular . |
3 | You see , we have n't been completely idle , Inspector . |
4 | How much worse it must be for those who have n't been as fortunate as I in recovering from such trauma . |
5 | Skates is confident that , whatever its prospects seem to outsiders , the fast-shrinking Westborough , Massachusetts-based hardware manufacturer will weather the economic storm , while competitors that have n't been as prudent will suffer greatly . |
6 | Yields of Texas ' 36MHz SuperSparc implementation , due to feature in the Model 30 , have n't been as high or as good as yields on a 33MHz part , so Sun , under pressure to get Sparc 10 systems out of the door , is thought to have put together the Model 20 to take advantage of this opportunity . |
7 | ‘ You have n't been that long away . ’ |
8 | Deary me , I was well drunk I s I have n't been , I have n't been that drunk since the Playpen gig . |
9 | You have n't been anywhere exotic have you ? |
10 | ‘ I have n't been entirely honest with you , Inspector . ’ |
11 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't been entirely honest . ’ |
12 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | And er it was probably where the drovers came through , it 's a drove road and I , I have n't been quite able to find out what he di I think he would be a shepherd probably . |
15 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
16 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
17 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
18 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
19 | Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved . |
20 | They have n't been very helpful . |
21 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
22 | I 've tried to adapt an adult 's one but have n't been very successful . |
23 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
26 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |
27 | I 've seen the laws in action and I have n't been too impressed . |
28 | You have n't been too bright since Harry arrived , have you ? ’ |
29 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
30 | It reminded Franca of some old happiness ; and she thought I have n't been really happy since that very first day when he said there was someone else but I was n't to worry . |