Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [not/n't] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the long post-war boom , argues Aglietta , such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism . |
| 2 | James Clappison , Yorkshire South , said Mr Heath 's intervention in the campaign had not been a conspicuous success . |
| 3 | Some thought the scandal might have done better , in terms of audience ratings , if the name had not been the leaden ‘ Iran-contra affair ’ but something with panache , cloak-and-dagger stuff . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 6 | His uncle had not been the same since Emily died . |
| 7 | The literati and the US army had n't been the only imports into Europe from across the Atlantic . |
| 8 | But the transition from French rule to Lebanese self-determination had not been an easy one . |
| 9 | The killing had not been a rational act ; when he did it , Alex Household had been mentally ill . |
| 10 | Grandpa had not been the only one who grabbed . |
| 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 | The care of the sick had not been the main concern of the House of Industry , and early personal records are lacking , but the workhouse master kept a weekly journal , the earliest entry in which is dated April 23rd 1842 . |
| 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 | Revolutionary changes in weapon technology had not been the only reason for the reimposition of the Ten-Year Rule . |