Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I have n't been a Hawaiian wedding . |
| 2 | I have n't been an easy man to live with for the past year . |
| 3 | No you 've not been a good boy ? |
| 4 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 5 | " 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 . |
| 6 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 7 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 8 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 9 | While Robinson was involved with Paisley and McQuade in the demonstrations against the invitation of Charles Haughey , then the Republic 's Prime Minister , to the enthronement of the Church of Ireland Primate in Armagh in May 1980 , he has not been a conspicuous street demonstrator . |
| 10 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 11 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 12 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 13 | It has not been a productive summer for Viv Richards . |
| 14 | For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains . |
| 15 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 16 | It has not been an easy ride , however . |
| 17 | Yet even those outside the profession will know it has not been an easy road recently . |
| 18 | ‘ It has n't been a good start , has it ? ’ |
| 19 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 20 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 21 | Well it has n't been a complete loss . |
| 22 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , so , it has n't been a bad day , it 's been quite nice |
| 24 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |
| 25 | It has n't been an easy year for the mother of two grown-up children , as anxious pet-owners have been known to telephone at four o' clock in the morning to ask about their cats or dogs . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 28 | It had not been a good day for the Magistrate . |
| 29 | It had not been a pleasant summer . |
| 30 | Priestley was to recall Payday as being a remarkable film but of course it had not been a typical Chaplin film . |