Example sentences of "[verb] not been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 32 | Wonford House Hospital continued to be used for acute and rehabilitation services and though a mental health centre at Tiverton has been developed the schism between the old and the new has not been so marked . |
| 33 | 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 ) . |
| 34 | The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability . |
| 35 | Our year has not been very eventful . |
| 36 | ‘ Britain has not been very good at getting the ideas out of universities . |
| 37 | Our experience of multilingual and multinational federations has not been very good . |
| 38 | LET's experience of working with ‘ name ’ architects has not been very fruitful . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | He answered cryptically but not very informatively ; ‘ It has not been though expedient for the Grand Junction to widen the locks . ’ |
| 42 | They can therefore be viewed as an attempt to translate the methodological rigours of economic science to the sphere of political behaviour in which , as we have seen , the attempt to develop a scientific approach has not been entirely successful . |
| 43 | If this has not been entirely successful , some recognition of the problem has at least been achieved . |
| 44 | Pinot Noir , Burgundy 's top red grape , is less willing to travel and has not been entirely amenable to efforts to tame it in Australia . |
| 45 | Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes . |
| 46 | The NCVO was supported by submissions from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants which warned that compliance with the existing non-mandatory SORP ‘ has not been terribly high ’ and questioned if it was reasonable to ‘ subject these entities straight away to a very demanding set of new accounting rules ’ . |
| 47 | However , the policy has not been unequivocally successful , and it is interesting to note which contracts have turned out to be successes and which failures . |
| 48 | She has not been directly involved in the Orkney situation , but she did lecture on ritual or satanic abuse at a two-day seminar in Aberdeen in November 1990 . |
| 49 | The responsibility for the reviews rests with the review officer who , under section 40(1) ( b ) , must be an officer of at least rank of inspector and who has not been directly involved in the investigation . |
| 50 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 51 | Environmental pollution in the Gulf has not been as extensive as feared , according to a survey by a team from the Monaco-based Marine Environment Laboratory , an arm of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) [ see also ED 62 ] . |
| 52 | Food costs have been high in the past because Fred has not been as efficient as he might have been ( he certainly seems to have neglected his record-keeping ! ) , and his action in letting Chrissie take the food was motivated by his resentment at being demoted . |
| 53 | However , although the WDA has remained , it has not been as interventionist in terms of urban policy as has the SDA . |
| 54 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 55 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 56 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes that ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 57 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 58 | Therefore , the Minister has not been as generous as he pretends . |
| 59 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 60 | In spite of these impressive results , progress in finding other examples of neurons with highly selective trigger features has not been as rapid as was hoped . |