Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 3 | Since the proposal was published in November 1990 , there has not been sufficient time to assess the reactions of the earth science departments funded by NERC to it . |
| 4 | This is because there has not been sufficient time to build up goodwill connected with the name and , hence , there is little danger that the public will be confused . |
| 5 | Trish 's own career has not been plain sailing . |
| 6 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 7 | Even at Cambridge this had not been plain sailing , as the remarks attributed to Christopher Kicks make clear : |
| 8 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 9 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 10 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 11 | " Sorry I have n't been great company . |
| 12 | The programmers have n't been complete bar stools though , 'coz Steg does receive some help . |
| 13 | I have n't been long back . |
| 14 | I just happened to feel it because the wounds have n't been healing Doctor , |