Example sentences of "[noun] had not [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 2 | Ibrox had not been a Glaswegian one-night stand . |
| 3 | James Clappison , Yorkshire South , said Mr Heath 's intervention in the campaign had not been a conspicuous success . |
| 4 | Its move from Maddox Street to Hanover Square had not been a happy one . |
| 5 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 6 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 7 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 8 | Yet Draper failed to mention that , in his exegesis of Scripture , Augustine had not been a hide-bound literalist . |
| 9 | The killing had not been a rational act ; when he did it , Alex Household had been mentally ill . |
| 10 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 11 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 12 | Patrick had not been a demonstrative man . |
| 13 | FOX : There is something in thy person that attracts everyone 's notice , but if a sack had not been a profane thing it would have become thee almost as well . |
| 14 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |