Example sentences of "has not been [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 2 | Similarly , the policy of refusing employment in the desirable areas to general practitioners has not been very effective because even these areas have not had their government quota of general practitioners . |
| 3 | Environmental pollution in the Gulf has not been as extensive as feared , according to a survey by a team from the Monaco-based Marine Environment Laboratory , an arm of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) [ see also ED 62 ] . |
| 4 | Food costs have been high in the past because Fred has not been as efficient as he might have been ( he certainly seems to have neglected his record-keeping ! ) , and his action in letting Chrissie take the food was motivated by his resentment at being demoted . |
| 5 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes that ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 7 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 8 | Therefore , the Minister has not been as generous as he pretends . |
| 9 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 10 | In spite of these impressive results , progress in finding other examples of neurons with highly selective trigger features has not been as rapid as was hoped . |
| 11 | The commercial application of expert systems in the UK has not been as widespread as was originally anticipated . |
| 12 | Erm it perhaps has n't been as major as as people might er have thought it should be . |
| 13 | It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke . |
| 14 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 15 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |