Example sentences of "n't [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In oth other words , there have n't been particularly good value acquisitions that are strategically suitable for us . |
| 2 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 3 | There have been times when in order to maintain that kind of standard , you had to do things that have n't been particularly popular . |
| 4 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 5 | Agatha had n't been unduly concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’ |
| 7 | Up to now her life has n't been altogether rosy . |
| 8 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 9 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 10 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 11 | You see , we have n't been completely idle , Inspector . |
| 12 | " So I have n't been absolutely truthful with him . |
| 13 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You have n't been that long away . ’ |
| 15 | Deary me , I was well drunk I s I have n't been , I have n't been that drunk since the Playpen gig . |
| 16 | If he wants to do it his way and he succeeds then great , but so far it has n't been that successful . |
| 17 | But then again , not really , if they had n't been THAT close all along anyway . |
| 18 | It has n't been that busy , it 's not busy . |
| 19 | dog you see , but er you can tell it has n't been that tough a winter because there 's still |
| 20 | She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers . |
| 21 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | I 've tried to adapt an adult 's one but have n't been very successful . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 30 | 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 . |