Example sentences of "n't [be] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | I 've tried to adapt an adult 's one but have n't been very successful . |
| 4 | World travel market attended , the club promotion , although it 's still running , has n't been very successful , over four hundred bed nights into the campaign , as a result of that short running promotion . |
| 5 | Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved . |
| 6 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 7 | to pick him he 's , he went out , he said I said to them , you 'll have to wait a minute my mother ai n't been very well , and I was ironing his shirt , he wo n't nothing to do |
| 8 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 9 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 10 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 11 | They have n't been very helpful . |
| 12 | Somebody did suggest that we ask Betty 's husband , but if he has n't been very helpful with the auditor , perhaps he 's not very keen on . |
| 13 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 14 | He has , he has n't been very active actually |
| 15 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 16 | According to the papers , he had n't been very complimentary about me recently . |
| 17 | They , they wo n't be very good . |
| 18 | Ca n't be very good . |
| 19 | It would n't be very good without Jeff Thomas there would it ? |
| 20 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 21 | Miss Menzies could n't be very helpful about the Datsun , though she answered all his questions very readily . |
| 22 | I mention that not in any boastful sense it 's only to reassure you that if I can do that then I , I ca n't be very much out of giving the wrong gen . |
| 23 | Yes a lot of makes then there ca n't be very much left . |
| 24 | Because there would n't be very much atmosphere |
| 25 | She can be trusted to feed according to her needs , however , but those needs might n't be very great . |
| 26 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 27 | Take care with application : if not applied properly they can chip off and could be swallowed by a child , which might not be harmful , but wo n't be very pleasant . |
| 28 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 29 | It 's us that promoted and surely if we created the situation it might work in our favour but it I mean it ca n't be very pleasant for other people |
| 30 | well it ca n't be very pleasant sit up there |