Example sentences of "[noun] have [not/n't] [be] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enemy has not been very active since the 10th August and I somehow miss the occasional mortar burst in the area , or the odd German shell passing over . |
| 2 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 3 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 4 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 5 | Up to that time the maritime needs of the two countries had not been very demanding . |
| 6 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 7 | Today 's town patrols have not been very busy , but as it is hot and it 's summer , they are n't too concerned . |
| 8 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 9 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Britain has not been very good at getting the ideas out of universities . |
| 12 | LET's experience of working with ‘ name ’ architects has not been very fruitful . |
| 13 | Your whole application 's not been very satisfactory Miss ! |
| 14 | The whole application 's not been very satisfactory |
| 15 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 16 | Our year has not been very eventful . |
| 17 | Our experience of multilingual and multinational federations has not been very good . |
| 18 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 19 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |