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

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1 However , at district health authority and hospital level there have not been the practical measures needed to achieve that .
2 Nevertheless , for the Andes as a whole , compressive stresses arising from plate convergence have not been the major cause of uplift .
3 The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport .
4 There are many projects where farmers have seen potential benefits from a project , but where these have not been the same as those anticipated by the project designers .
5 ‘ I have not been the same since the assault , ’ the 20-year-old student said at her flat near Hanover , where she is continuing her biology degree course .
6 Things have not been the same on the operational side of the art business .
7 What has appeared as an intense , bitter and irreconcilable polarization has occurred partly because our basic moral concerns have not been the same .
8 But we have n't been the only ones to combat that , there have been white lesbians as well who have taken offence at that particularly say working class white lesbians or white lesbians with disabilities who have also felt that particular issues affecting them have been marginalised .
9 ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation .
10 They have n't been the sole centre of attention — no one is .
11 ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’
12 ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’
13 Yes , things have n't been the same since Fred fell down the cellar steps and broke his neck "
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