Example sentences of "[noun] have [not/n't] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful . |
| 4 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 7 | Today 's town patrols have not been very busy , but as it is hot and it 's summer , they are n't too concerned . |
| 8 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |
| 9 | Enterprise zones have not been environmentally harmful ; in many cases standards have greatly improved . |
| 10 | However , attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful . |
| 11 | Many health workers have not been well prepared to use information during their basic training , and others have lost those skills through lack of practice . |
| 12 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 13 | Governments have not been as irrational and totally careless of life as the experience of the Second World War led many to believe . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 15 | Some bookmakers have not been entirely happy with their new placing in the Down Royal set-up and there had been grumblings about taking the matter to a higher authority . |
| 16 | In the past , Chelsea teams have not been so disciplined , and have given away silly goals . |
| 17 | Conferences , committees , grandiose planning of operations divorced from day-to-day contact with laboratories and clinics , and the blind screening of endless substances have not been notably efficacious . |
| 18 | It is worth noting , however , that the spending priorities have not been radically dissimilar from those planned by the outgoing Labour government , which also planned for cuts in spending on education and housing and an expansion in spending on defence , law and order , and social security . |
| 19 | But it is perhaps worth noticing here that firms have not been conspicuously forthcoming with offers to fund the schools , and the DES itself has had to put up considerable sums to support the first of them . |
| 20 | Or producers have not been sufficiently provocative and challenging in their discussions with screenwriters , failing to generate the levels of energy required to maximize a script 's possibilities . |
| 21 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 22 | As we have already seen , attempts to explain the rapid changes in complex behaviour simply in terms of contingent relations between behaviour and the environment have not been particularly successful . |
| 23 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 24 | But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude . |
| 25 | The idea of positive repentance for corporations has already been implemented in some American states , but the results have not been too impressive , largely because the logic of the sanction has not been followed through . |
| 26 | Numbers have not been too good and although last sing-a-long was not a total washout financially speaking , he feels a good attendance and atmosphere are more important . |
| 27 | It is symptomatic that the directors of insolvent companies ignore demands for payment , and frequently judgments are obtained where the proceedings have not been quite wrong for such judgment creditors to obtain any preferential treatment . |
| 28 | Perhaps surprisingly , although the figures show that UK membership has produced trading deficits , the extent of the deficits have not been as large as those of France and Italy . |
| 29 | Iberia 's forays into Latin America have not been entirely happy . |
| 30 | While NME has thrived , dipped , flourished , teetered and survived , countless others have not been so lucky . |