Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Identifying the protected class in sex and race discrimination law has not been generally problematic . |
| 15 | I wanted to run away , and if that window had not been so high I believe I would have jumped through it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 19 | Unfortunately some of the rhetoric of this recent announcement has not been so enlightened , but has been couched in hard , aggressive language . |
| 20 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 21 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 22 | If the whole business had not been impossibly difficult , she wondered if she would have bothered at all . |
| 23 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 24 | The truth had not been too difficult to discover . |
| 25 | If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned . |
| 26 | The growth of internationalization has not been purely autonomous and spontaneous . |
| 27 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 28 | Apparently the school dessert had n't been too popular with the children : the remains of the custard had been put out in a bin , and this had attracted that great opportunist , the starling . |
| 29 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 30 | Perhaps her behaviour on Sunday night had not been so foolish after all . |