Example sentences of "had not been so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zeppelin attack left ten people dead in the city , and scores wounded : if the Germans ' bomb-aiming had not been so lousy , the toll could have included many of the sleeping deaf children in Donaldson 's . |
| 2 | ‘ If the Countess of Anjou had not been so anxious to correct any false impressions we may have had about your arrival the negotiations might have dragged on indefinitely . |
| 3 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 4 | Since Christmas they had not been so friendly . |
| 5 | If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine . |
| 6 | For ever , after all , had not been so long . |
| 7 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 8 | If England had not been so successful , then perhaps I would be moaning . |
| 9 | The Peace Alliance had , as a result , attracted support from a variety of national figures , but had not been so successful in the organized Labour movement . |
| 10 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 11 | They had not been so good to her ; she had lost too many things , too many friends , too much of herself . |
| 12 | If Frances had not been so low with a cold , maybe she would n't have reacted so strongly to Andy , her boyfriend . |
| 13 | Sir Edmond 's other foundation , the little Chapel at Woodhead , had not been so fortunate : in May 1837 the Goldsmiths received |
| 14 | In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages . |
| 15 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 16 | Just behind the estate which he had saved , the land had not been so lucky . |
| 17 | It was enough that he should receive food and shelter most nights ; many of his family had not been so lucky . |
| 18 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 19 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 20 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 21 | I wanted to vomit and would have if my belly had not been so empty . |
| 22 | Women from the ‘ lower classes ’ demanded an end to it all , saying ‘ 1918 had not been so bad , and things would now too surely not be so bad ’ . |
| 23 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 24 | It might have been extremely interesting if Caspar had not been so worried about Pumlumon 's knowledge of the spell . |
| 25 | I wanted to run away , and if that window had not been so high I believe I would have jumped through it . |
| 26 | He was careful to exchange addresses and telephone numbers and , if he had not been so short of funds , would have suggested buying her a drink at the Ritz , outside which they were both standing . |
| 27 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 28 | But if their rescuer had not been so swift … |
| 29 | Perhaps her behaviour on Sunday night had not been so foolish after all . |
| 30 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |