Example sentences of "not been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did . |
| 2 | THERE has not been much good news for tigers recently , so conservationists are astonished by the noises coming out of Beijing . |
| 3 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 4 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 5 | Before she could think how to respond without sounding defensive he was saying : ‘ You are angry with yourself , remorseful because if you had not been late this thing would never have happened . |
| 6 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 7 | The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose . |
| 8 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 9 | But it 's not been all good news , as Chris Harbod of the R S P B has been explaining . |
| 10 | Father must be in his sixties now , and had not been well this winter . |
| 11 | er , was that because you 've not been well this week or just is it a , ro routine replacement or something ? |
| 12 | But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have . |
| 13 | The sun looked very bright , but when had it not been bright that summer ? |
| 14 | he 's not been quiet all day . |
| 15 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 16 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 17 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 18 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 19 | As we showed earlier in this section , there has not been any serious shortage of capital for investment during the period covered by this study . |
| 20 | So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies . |
| 21 | There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 . |
| 22 | Indeed , as far as I am aware , there have not been any previous accidents of this nature within the tunnel . |
| 23 | Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so . |
| 24 | But a Garda spokesman in Dundalk said : ‘ There has not been any notable increase in crime , certainly no more so than in any other area . ’ |
| 25 | It has n't been good all week and that 's not fair , ’ said George . |
| 26 | There has n't been much personal satisfaction for Neil Fairbrother during a Lancashire campaign bedevilled by injuries and under-achievement , but what more efficacious balm for his troubles than a century in the Roses match at Headingley . |
| 27 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 28 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 29 | , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no . |
| 30 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |