Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | Its move from Maddox Street to Hanover Square had not been a happy one . |
4 | Yet Draper failed to mention that , in his exegesis of Scripture , Augustine had not been a hide-bound literalist . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | Patrick had not been a demonstrative man . |
7 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |