Example sentences of "has not been [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this has not been immediately obvious to the unconverted . |
| 2 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 3 | At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure . |
| 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 | Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books . |
| 6 | Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 7 | But in contrast , the DTI has not been notably successful in bringing prosecutions against insiders based on the dossiers provided — as the Geoffrey Collier case demonstrates . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Care has not been so tender for the eiderdown duck , which has perished in large numbers due to oil slicks in its Iceland habitat , as European demand for its fluffy down , mainly used in bedding , increases . |
| 12 | Air from outside the hole , which has not been so depleted of ozone , then enters the region and the mixing of the air masses dissipates the hole ( Rowland , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability . |
| 16 | ‘ Britain has not been very good at getting the ideas out of universities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He answered cryptically but not very informatively ; ‘ It has not been though expedient for the Grand Junction to widen the locks . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , although the WDA has remained , it has not been as interventionist in terms of urban policy as has the SDA . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 26 | Perhaps I should add that Dr. Gray on occasions has not been too impressed with the WCC ! informs me that he was strong in his support of view at last year 's General Assembly that the Church of Scotland should withdraw from the WCC . |
| 27 | But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter . |
| 28 | Too often business has been inward looking and has not been sufficiently rigorous in pursuing the question of who needs to know of changes in its practices and needs . |
| 29 | It has not been sufficiently sensitive to the issues which divide and potentially destroy us , or to the need to renounce the legacy of patriarchal relations in our own behaviour . |
| 30 | Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road . |