Example sentences of "[verb] not been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help .
2 Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship .
3 Identifying the protected class in sex and race discrimination law has not been generally problematic .
4 ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . )
5 This pragmatism has not been completely shapeless , however .
6 However , this has not been immediately obvious to the unconverted .
7 If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned .
8 He has not been properly fit for months .
9 We believe that the negotiating position has not been particularly clever .
10 To date the 1992/3 winter has not been particularly serious and in the main the daily rake of 158s and 153s has run well .
11 However , this has not been particularly successful .
12 At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure .
13 and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ?
14 It shows that in fact Germany 's economic performance , especially in recent years , has not been particularly impressive .
15 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 ) .
16 His full support for the anti-Saddam coalition has not been universally popular : hence his latest diplomatic effort , which he must hope will still redound to his credit and give the Soviet Union a useful base on which to build a role in the post-war Middle East .
17 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 .
18 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 ’ .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The growth of internationalization has not been purely autonomous and spontaneous .
22 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 .
23 THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette .
24 However , the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The relationship of women within the family and to waged work throughout the twentieth century has not been so clear cut .
28 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 ) .
29 Unfortunately some of the rhetoric of this recent announcement has not been so enlightened , but has been couched in hard , aggressive language .
30 This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women .
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