Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 5 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 6 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 9 | That had n't been The Last Straw ; far from it . |
| 10 | 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 . |