Example sentences of "[pron] had not [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 2 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 3 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 4 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 5 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 6 | There had n't been a proper tea . |
| 7 | Who knows how long that fly might have lived if there had not been a battered ruler lying to hand . |
| 8 | They had gone out together but there had not been a sexual relationship between them as Faye had been unwilling to sleep with Harris , said Mr Chadd . |
| 9 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 10 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 11 | It had not been a good day for the Magistrate . |
| 12 | It had not been a pleasant summer . |
| 13 | Priestley was to recall Payday as being a remarkable film but of course it had not been a typical Chaplin film . |
| 14 | It had not been a serious proposition . |
| 15 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 16 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 17 | But it had not been a smooth process . |
| 18 | We flew back to Heathrow ; it had not been a happy trip for me , full of niggling and snide remarks . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it had not been a happy visit . |
| 20 | It had not been a pretty sight . |
| 21 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 22 | It had not been a large legacy . |
| 23 | The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders . |
| 24 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 25 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 26 | It had n't been a busy day in London town , but there was no mention of anybody falling through windows in Leytonstone . |
| 27 | It had n't been a little panda , either , but a Rover 2600 , an ‘ Area car ’ . |
| 28 | Since he had not been a public figure before the war , the mass of French people had no idea what he looked like . |