Example sentences of "[noun] have [not/n't] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 2 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 3 | His full support for the anti-Saddam coalition has not been universally popular : hence his latest diplomatic effort , which he must hope will still redound to his credit and give the Soviet Union a useful base on which to build a role in the post-war Middle East . |
| 4 | These provisions are an example of the recent trend of legislating against tax avoidance in an arcane and difficult fashion , leaving the Revenue to publish Practice Statements or press releases giving their interpretations ( though the Revenue has not been particularly forthcoming regarding " options arrangements " in Statement of Practice 3/93 which supersedes Statement of Practice 5/80 ) . |
| 5 | In 1850 Nesselrode expressed the view that " Russia 's position and that of her Sovereign has not been as attractive or as powerful since 1814 " . |
| 6 | The LDDC has not been especially willing to enter in co-operative , collaborative arrangements with existing statutory organizations . |
| 7 | Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 11 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 12 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 13 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 14 | If Marie had n't been so desperate to escape from that room , she would n't have suggested taking Bella out in her wheelchair . |
| 15 | Moreover , his speeches had not been fundamentally concerned with ‘ Britain with the continent ’ , but with ‘ Britain and the continent ’ . |
| 16 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 17 | It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy . |
| 18 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 19 | It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful . |
| 20 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that GPs were encouraged to introduce computerisation partly by an offer of Government funds to refund the cost of that process and , in districts such as the Wessex health authority , those funds have not been fully forthcoming ? |
| 22 | To date the 1992/3 winter has not been particularly serious and in the main the daily rake of 158s and 153s has run well . |
| 23 | Such a test has not been routinely available in our Department and this could be seen as a shortcoming in the service that has been offered , as well as a limitation to the scope of this study . |
| 24 | Identifying the protected class in sex and race discrimination law has not been generally problematic . |
| 25 | Agatha had n't been unduly concerned . |
| 26 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 27 | I wanted to run away , and if that window had not been so high I believe I would have jumped through it . |
| 28 | Up to that time the maritime needs of the two countries had not been very demanding . |
| 29 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 30 | This functional explanation seems to be more satisfactory than , and logically prior to , one based on prestige : as it happens , this individual 's activities away from home had not been upwardly mobile . |