Example sentences of "[adj] have [not/n't] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . )
2 and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ?
3 Inevitably , er that has not been entirely acceded to , and indeed to some extent er I can hardly be surprised as events move on during the course of the enquiry .
4 So far that has not been so . ’
5 However , this has not been particularly successful .
6 However , this has not been immediately obvious to the unconverted .
7 If this has not been entirely successful , some recognition of the problem has at least been achieved .
8 In previous accounts of the repatriations this has not been sufficiently brought out .
9 This has n't been properly thought out in terms of how best to determine the country 's security in future .
10 But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought .
11 Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate .
12 This had not been so with the earliest stages as drawn in The German Ideology or Formen because even here Marx talks of ‘ slavery being inherent in the family ’ and the universality of class relations .
13 Yet a closer look behind these stark figures suggests that the English have not been so peculiarly heartless .
14 Recent studies have examined separately the influence of H pylori and age on both gastric function and histology but the complex inter-relationship between H pylori infection , gastric morphology , gastric secretory function , and ageing have not been well defined .
15 In particular , it examined how the current financial arrangements worked , and concluded that these had not been especially favourable to the Scottish licence feepayer .
16 The other innovation of the early 1940s had not been generally adopted .
17 However , in the face of increasing restraint on public expenditure , these have not been notably successful .
18 The government has attempted some favela removal programs , but these have not been very successful , mainly because the new housing schemes are too expensive .
19 You read a lot about trying bends and pump inlets and other such features but , in my experience , these have not been very exceptional , the holding features often being far less obvious .
20 The few reported cases that have come to autopsy have generally shown bilateral cerebral lesions but the right sided damage has always been in the region of the occipito-temporal junction whereas the lesions on the left have not been uniformly located ( Benson , Segarra and Albert , 1974 ; Meadows , 1974 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) .
21 Women from the ‘ lower classes ’ demanded an end to it all , saying ‘ 1918 had not been so bad , and things would now too surely not be so bad ’ .
22 Until he was seven his life at home though poverty stricken had not been too bad .
23 They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered .
24 The amount due from XY at 25 March 1992 had not been finally agreed .
25 The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced .
26 My view is that Anglo-American feminists have tended to assimilate , and then dismiss Irigaray 's work too quickly , in part because the concept of the imaginary has not been closely examined .
27 However , where such transplantation has been attempted , the results as far as productivity is concerned have not been as dramatic as management academics had expected ( Cole 1980 ) .
28 Her career in movies from the age of seventeen had not been particularly distinguished .
29 In the first edition of this book it was argued that levels of controversy over social policies since 1951 had not been particularly high .
30 That had not been long ago .
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