Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democratic Party chairman , Mr Ron Brown , said that ‘ there has not been such a decision so out of touch with American values since the sale of arms to the Ayatollah . |
| 2 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 3 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 4 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 5 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 6 | IT HAS not been much of a week for Welsh politicians because the country 's resounding rejection of Mr Neil Kinnock has been followed by the decision of the International Rugby Board to ignore the reservations expressed by the Welsh Rugby Union and to hold the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 7 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 8 | THERE has not been much good news for tigers recently , so conservationists are astonished by the noises coming out of Beijing . |
| 9 | ‘ The Church has not been much involved in the circles of healing . |
| 10 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 11 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 12 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 13 | Except for a few months in 1986 , after the collapse in the oil price , underlying inflation has not been this low since February 1968 . ’ |
| 14 | Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so . |
| 15 | There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy . |
| 16 | As we showed earlier in this section , there has not been any serious shortage of capital for investment during the period covered by this study . |
| 17 | There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 . |
| 18 | In this generation there has not been any doubt about his identity . |
| 19 | But a Garda spokesman in Dundalk said : ‘ There has not been any notable increase in crime , certainly no more so than in any other area . ’ |
| 20 | No , there has not been another report saying how well she did in the South Atlantic , the European parliament has not ‘ liberated ’ Britain 's £500 million rebate from the European Community , nor has the opposition to the new nuclear power station at Sizewell withdrawn from the public inquiry The news that the Prime Minister has awaited with bated breath ever since she visited CERN last year comes from Switzerland , and it has nothing to do with Zurich , or gnomes . |
| 21 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 22 | Ending legal segregation has not been enough to end segregation itself . |
| 23 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 24 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
| 25 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 26 | This ‘ pervasive desire , which has not been consistently felt ( and which certainly has not been enough to guarantee that every professional a cappella ensemble is equally admired by every scholar-critic in England ) can be interpreted in various ways . |
| 27 | ‘ This one has been unfair to the players because there has not been enough cricket in between the Tests . |
| 28 | There has not been enough time to prepare properly for each of the Test matches . |
| 29 | There has n't been many now . |
| 30 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |