Example sentences of "had not [been] a [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 2 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 . |