Example sentences of "had not been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not been altogether honest with the parents regarding the ‘ job situation ’ and considered it prudent to steal silently away to his room , rather than construct explanations for his early return from ‘ work ’ . |
| 2 | The master of the horse said later that he had not been overly impressed by this proposal . |
| 3 | His life had not been particularly eventful or distinguished . |
| 4 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 5 | In the first edition of this book it was argued that levels of controversy over social policies since 1951 had not been particularly high . |
| 6 | Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker . |
| 7 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 8 | Her career in movies from the age of seventeen had not been particularly distinguished . |
| 9 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 10 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 11 | Churchill himself had not been notably concerned with translating the general principle into practical realities . |
| 12 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 13 | Lorton had not been exactly friendly before Arabella 's death . |
| 14 | The ‘ evening ’ , if such it could be called , had not been exactly successful , though one obviously should n't expect too much of a chance meeting . |
| 15 | If that martinet had not been already married , he would have married Sophia , and would no doubt have made Paul 's life even more intolerable as his stepfather . |
| 16 | She had not been favourably impressed by Trevor 's arrogant display of bad manners , but kept her thoughts to herself . |
| 17 | Moreover , his speeches had not been fundamentally concerned with ‘ Britain with the continent ’ , but with ‘ Britain and the continent ’ . |
| 18 | The Court of first instance decided that there had not been unfairly prejudicial conduct . |
| 19 | He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee . |
| 20 | In particular , it examined how the current financial arrangements worked , and concluded that these had not been especially favourable to the Scottish licence feepayer . |
| 21 | Yet it had not been especially noble of me . |
| 22 | Some parties complained of voting irregularities , such as multiple voting , but foreign observers said that any such irregularities had not been sufficiently widespread to have influenced the result . |
| 23 | Paisley had broken with Kilfedder because he had not been sufficiently outspoken in his criticism of O'Neill . |
| 24 | The judge , having heard evidence , concluded that because of her condition and the effect of the narcotic medication she had not been fully rational when she signed the refusal form . |
| 25 | It had not been fully dark when she had been flying . |
| 26 | In an interview in Washington on May 6 , however , Bani-Sadr acknowledged that , as he had not been directly involved in the negotiations , he had no first-hand knowledge of the alleged deal . |
| 27 | And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time . |
| 28 | She was still shaken that anyone should calmly kiss her when she had not been long widowed , but his remark stung her into retort . |
| 29 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 30 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |