Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [be] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study . |
| 3 | After that time , you have no liability — provided you have not been grossly negligent with your card . |
| 4 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | … courts have not been so strict in denying the validity of consideration where a moral duty was performed , as they have in holding agreements invalid as against public policy where they contemplated a violation of the same duty . |
| 9 | Maybe I 'm being a bit harsh on philosophers , but they have not been very kind to me . |
| 10 | I have not been very kind to UK banks or bankers recently , so they may be pleased to find their incompetence echoed , or even exceeded , abroad . |
| 11 | But also that any who might peruse this essay from a research perspective will feel that I have not been too cavalier in the implications that I draw from the results of their studies . |
| 12 | The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine . |
| 13 | I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year . |
| 14 | I have not been really warm for days . |
| 15 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 16 | I think ideas like that have not been readily acceptable by the Labour Group and |
| 17 | They have not been sufficiently sensitive to the fact that the message received may differ substantially from that which they imagined they had delivered . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 20 | Deary me , I was well drunk I s I have n't been , I have n't been that drunk since the Playpen gig . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't been entirely honest with you , Inspector . ’ |
| 22 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved . |
| 28 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 29 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 30 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |