Sentence examples for had been negative from inspiring English sources

But all the tests had been negative until the most recent ones, agriculture officials say.

Sergeant Castillo said no one had been "negative" about the Army or said anything "derogatory".

Carlotto denied that the results of the tests had been negative.

On Monday, the Fed said tests for prostate cancer had been negative.

Just before the election campaign started, 70% of French people thought his record in office had been negative.

Mr. Grubman, who had been negative on the stock, coincidentally upgraded it to a buy in November 1999.

Now, on the hospital grounds, the President paused and then said that the test results had been negative.

Tests on 20 chicken houses within two miles of the first flock, it said, had been negative.

If the reports had been negative, she added, she probably would have contacted the principal to discuss her concerns.

And 61percentt said they thought the campaign's tone had recently been positive, while only 17percentt said it had been negative.

She found that half of them spontaneously wanted to talk about the money's impact on sibling relationships, and that nearly all said the effect had been negative.