Example sentences of "have not been [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So far , the bridging fund has not been applicable to many of the circumstances farmers have been needing to apply for . ’ |
| 3 | While awaiting the views of the European Court , will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that Presbyterians in Scotland enjoy shopping on Sundays and that has not been detrimental to those who wish to attend church ? |
| 4 | The domestic banking system has ( since the early 1980s ) been completely free of formal restrictions on the supply of credit and has not been subject to reserve requirements . |
| 5 | The market for top quality works by Matisse has not been subject to speculative buying , according to David Nash , head of Sotheby 's New York Impressionist Department . |
| 6 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 7 | Mr Dewar called for the setting up of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs — it was , he said ‘ a disgrace that the Scottish Office uniquely has not been subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny ’ . |
| 8 | Since Schoenberg 's day , modernism has has not been averse to self-serving diatribes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Time has not been kind to this view either . |
| 11 | The contract included limits for external financing which had not been subject to overall control previously , and set RENFE a variety of financial objectives including a reduction in its call on state funds . |
| 12 | He described it as " regrettable " that positions taken in the UN Security Council by the EC 's two permanent Security Council members — the UK and France — had not been subject to prior agreement among the 12 EC members . |
| 13 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 14 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |
| 15 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 16 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |
| 17 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |