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

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1 Those expectations and responsibilities have not been static .
2 The dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes , through lack of motivation and the organised working class , due to its size and nature , resulting from peripheral capitalist development , have not been revolutionary forces in the region .
3 Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’
4 And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) .
5 I have many points to answer , rather than respond to hon. Members who have not been present for the full debate .
6 The past 10 years have not been easy for the profession .
7 Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language .
8 While things in the television , video and film media markets have not been easy , Carlton Communications Plc has increased both interim profits and turnover , helped by sustained recovery at its video and sound products division , which includes Quantel — developer of the computer-based Paintbox television graphics generator .
9 I am pleased to see the porpoise , because they too have been affected by the general shortage of food recently , and have not been easy to find in their usual haunts .
10 Answers to such questions have not been easy to obtain .
11 Profits on a £1m turnover have not been spectacular .
12 At the end of the book , however , there are thirty-two pages of publisher 's advertisements , dated 1885 , which have not been tipped-in but bound in as an integral part .
13 ‘ The Weem women have not been behind-hand — they would have stormed Castle Menzies on their own. , ‘ There is a bit more spirit down our way — more spirit and more cash . ’
14 They have not been relevant enough to the needs of the world 's poor .
15 Two main factors stand in the way of adventurous design , MacCormac believes : ‘ In the inner cities , the cost of land has been so high that individual homes have not been economic ; in the country , local planning committees are one of the big barriers .
16 and I have not been rebellious
17 and I have not been rebellious ;
18 In nursing libraries a set of film loops of practical procedures can be made available , either for revision or to illustrate procedures that have not been available during a period of ward experience .
19 Furthermore , there would be no question of the judge , before giving his advice , seeing documents which have not been available to the prisoner .
20 Such data have not been available for the public sector in England and Wales until the OPCS Survey of School Leavers ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) .
21 Purchasers of health care have tried to adjust their expected intervention rates to allow for activity in the private sector , but the calculations have been extremely crude because local data have not been available .
22 All young people falling into that category but over the age of 18 who have not been available for YT because of disability , ill health , pregnancy , a custodial sentence , remand or language difficulty are entitled to an offer of a suitable YT programme and to receive such training .
23 So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past .
24 However , the results of the comparison of valence level PES with these simpler calculations have not been encouraging .
25 And , as we shall also see , the courts have not been adverse to developing the common law to like restrictive effect .
26 Like the LEA , the committee must seek to grant parental preference , but subject to the exceptions contained in section 6 in so far as these have not been dis-applied by the 1988 Act ( see below ) .
27 I have always disagreed with those in the black community who , when they have applied for jobs and have not been successful , have blamed it on the colour of their skin .
28 After a period employers start to wonder why job searches have not been successful .
29 The Soviet Union and China are not impossible , but we have not been successful there before .
30 Attempts , in continental law , to reduce this vulnerability , by introducing a legal official into the investigatory stage , have not been successful .
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