Example sentences of "[vb base] not been very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and as part of that committee I believe we 've not been very successful . |
| 2 | Mm that 's what I 've cos I 've not been very busy I 've been picking , you know like a few peanuts there 's chocolate peanuts , there 's |
| 3 | Today 's town patrols have not been very busy , but as it is hot and it 's summer , they are n't too concerned . |
| 4 | The government has attempted some favela removal programs , but these have not been very successful , mainly because the new housing schemes are too expensive . |
| 5 | ‘ They have not been very helpful . |
| 6 | The museum 's own commercial activities , always criticised as unsuitable for a prominent national institution , have not been very effective . |
| 7 | Maybe I 'm being a bit harsh on philosophers , but they have not been very kind to me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You read a lot about trying bends and pump inlets and other such features but , in my experience , these have not been very exceptional , the holding features often being far less obvious . |
| 10 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 11 | I 've tried to adapt an adult 's one but have n't been very successful . |
| 12 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They have n't been very helpful . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 17 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |