Example sentences of "[verb] not been [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 2 | Similarly , the policy of refusing employment in the desirable areas to general practitioners has not been very effective because even these areas have not had their government quota of general practitioners . |
| 3 | Environmental pollution in the Gulf has not been as extensive as feared , according to a survey by a team from the Monaco-based Marine Environment Laboratory , an arm of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) [ see also ED 62 ] . |
| 4 | Food costs have been high in the past because Fred has not been as efficient as he might have been ( he certainly seems to have neglected his record-keeping ! ) , and his action in letting Chrissie take the food was motivated by his resentment at being demoted . |
| 5 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes that ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 7 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 8 | Therefore , the Minister has not been as generous as he pretends . |
| 9 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 10 | In spite of these impressive results , progress in finding other examples of neurons with highly selective trigger features has not been as rapid as was hoped . |
| 11 | The commercial application of expert systems in the UK has not been as widespread as was originally anticipated . |
| 12 | The judge , having heard evidence , concluded that because of her condition and the effect of the narcotic medication she had not been fully rational when she signed the refusal form . |
| 13 | It had not been fully dark when she had been flying . |
| 14 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 15 | Lilly had not been more beautiful than the other women who sought him , just more clever . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that if Wyn had not been as strong as she has , then I would not be here today . ’ |
| 17 | The superintendent was looking relieved that the incident had not been as bad as it might have been . |
| 18 | Mr Wilkinsion said he was pleasantly surprised that the loss of traffic had not been as bad as feared . |
| 19 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 20 | She enjoyed nearly everything , even widow 's weeds perhaps most of all widow 's weeds , as her married life had not been as exciting as she might have wished , and besides , they were so graceful and pretty . |
| 21 | Swod pursed his lips with faint irascibility : his ‘ bon mot ’ about Mills had not been as conclusive as he hoped . |
| 22 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 23 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 24 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 25 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 26 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 27 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 29 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 30 | As it is , when I use mine , I think of her , and of the generations of Merchants that have not been as lucky as I. |