Example sentences of "[vb past] not been very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 2 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 3 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 4 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 5 | Someone had not been very intelligent , he thought . |
| 6 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 7 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 8 | Up to that time the maritime needs of the two countries had not been very demanding . |
| 9 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 10 | According to the papers , he had n't been very complimentary about me recently . |