Example sentences of "[vb past] not been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 2 | Revolutionary changes in weapon technology had not been the only reason for the reimposition of the Ten-Year Rule . |
| 3 | At the snowbound alpine inn of Kleine Scheidegg , Kartoffel had not been the only climber to get a taste of the good frau 's favours . |
| 4 | Charles Marovitz in It had not been the only reviewer from the left dissatisfied with the Royal Shakespeare Company 's US on the Vietnam war . |
| 5 | As a result , Earl Robert had not been the only valuable prisoner taken , a fact that obviously rankled with Matilda . |
| 6 | Grandpa had not been the only one who grabbed . |
| 7 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 8 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |
| 9 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 10 | The care of the sick had not been the main concern of the House of Industry , and early personal records are lacking , but the workhouse master kept a weekly journal , the earliest entry in which is dated April 23rd 1842 . |
| 11 | His uncle had not been the same since Emily died . |
| 12 | He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago . |
| 13 | Dad was different ; he had not been the same since that night Alice was out and she had gone downstairs and watched him working on his book . |
| 14 | Some thought the scandal might have done better , in terms of audience ratings , if the name had not been the leaden ‘ Iran-contra affair ’ but something with panache , cloak-and-dagger stuff . |
| 15 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 16 | The literati and the US army had n't been the only imports into Europe from across the Atlantic . |
| 17 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 18 | Vanessa had n't been the first woman to indulge his taste in hand-made shirts and silk waistcoats , nor would she be the last . |
| 19 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 20 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 21 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 22 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 23 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 24 | That had n't been The Last Straw ; far from it . |
| 25 | 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 . |