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

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1 ‘ You are quite sure that your uncle Alfred has not been here today ? ’
2 The parish council has not been here as long as the parish .
3 Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established .
4 The role of specific acetyltransferase activity in Crohn 's disease patients has not been so far studied , and deserves investigation .
5 A comprehensive evaluation of the motility at different levels of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients , however , has not been so far reported .
6 It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line .
7 ‘ Dear knows why he has not been back here these few days ! ’ muttered the housekeeper fretfully .
8 One of the unanswered questions is why , given its declared success , it has not been more widely adopted by local authorities ?
9 But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed .
10 Although OS/2 can run DOS ( and in turn DOS applications ) it has not been as widely accepted in Europe as it has in America .
11 The pound 's fall from grace has not been quite as marked as the stock market 's recovery but , for all the Government 's protestations about the need for a firm exchange rate , its decline has been very sharp .
12 There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today .
13 But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years .
14 Neither of them are gon na get better , I mean you 've been in here all this time and he has n't been up yet
15 I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be .
16 Mavis stands in the book shop writing the name and the things down you see and then she goes to the library , she has n't been out properly yet with her knee has she ?
17 ‘ Yet she has n't been out here to see you ? ’
18 It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background .
19 Table tennis oh , well , have , the table tennis has n't been then yet ?
20 ‘ But that 's absurd really , because as soon as I 've … made love to anyone before — and it has n't been that often — I 've lost most of the feeling that led me there straight away , if you see what I mean . ’
21 He has n't been down yet ? ’
22 Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) .
23 It will take time , I 've detected , as I 'm sure you have too delegates , a feeling of confidence in our debates so far at this conference , a confidence that has n't been there recently .
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