Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [not/n't] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right to point out that , in the past five years and beyond , the taxpayer has not been ungenerous in giving money to the coal industry . |
| 3 | To often we have heard of buildings that have been put under capital expenditure and then the revenue has not been available for their use . |
| 4 | But this kind of razamatazz has n't been necessary for the XJ220 . |
| 5 | Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature . |
| 6 | But overall , 75% of you have not had an affair — although only 65% are confident that their husband/partner has not been unfaithful to them . |
| 7 | Voices have sometimes been heard to question or deny the validity of this requirement but , while it is probably true to say that this issue has not been central in the cases since Thomson v. Deakin , the necessity for unlawful means has been so consistently repeated in subsequent statements of the law that it is now hopeless to argue the contrary . |
| 8 | For some years housing benefit has not been available to students in halls of residence or similar accommodation . |
| 9 | Management has not been insistent on displacing the permanent/temporary worker system with job seniority procedures ( i.e. first in/first out ) because of its own sense of paternalistic responsibility and because of the flexibility of operations afforded by the employment of temporary workers . |
| 10 | Education has not been immune from this process , and some would argue that it has helped to create new social divisions . |
| 11 | With respect , I shall not give way because my hon. Friend has not been present for much of the debate . |
| 12 | And conventional plant breeding has not been successful in producing high-yielding insect-resistant crops . |
| 13 | The season has n't been kind to Somerset 's Ricky Bartlett . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid this last week has n't been wonderful for , for practice . |
| 15 | Since the introduction of the business sectors of BR , Railfreight has not been slow to totally eliminate certain freight-only routes where an alternative existed , albeit , invariably longer . |
| 16 | The stability of the enterprise conditions of calculation that develop in the East Asian example has not been productive of the formation of high-risk entrepreneurial behaviour as firms launch into speculative and unrelated lines of business . |
| 17 | Scrappy success has not been typical of Cardinal Vaughan 's start to the season . |
| 18 | Despite the blaze of publicity which accompanied the launch of the White Paper , the Government has not been successful in generating support for its proposals . |
| 19 | As such , the private investor has not been keen on Taurus . |
| 20 | Life has n't been easy for Patsy McGowan 's troops of late . |
| 21 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 22 | Although there has been a generally stable long-term distribution pattern at the regional level , closer inspection reveals that since the industrial revolution growth has not been uniform across the country . |
| 23 | So far , the bridging fund has not been applicable to many of the circumstances farmers have been needing to apply for . ’ |
| 24 | The experience of unemployment has not been exclusive to people who left school under a Conservative Government . |
| 25 | Since no legislation has been passed to reduce socio-economic inequalities in industrial discipline and since trade union activity has not been concerned with such issues either , it is almost certain that little change has taken place in the years since this study . |
| 26 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 27 | Time has not been kind to this view either . |
| 28 | Additionally the political atmosphere has not been conducive to encouraging oil companies to engage in active exploration and development though this still continues despite the pull-out of Exxon and Mobil . |
| 29 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 30 | The weather has not been kind to the river in recent weeks and today is no exception . |