Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [not/n't] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest-rate subsidies have attracted more notice , but the comparative cost of credits in different currencies has not been much explored . |
| 2 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 3 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 4 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 5 | Moreover , his speeches had not been fundamentally concerned with ‘ Britain with the continent ’ , but with ‘ Britain and the continent ’ . |
| 6 | At least Piers had not been around when she had left . |
| 7 | It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy . |
| 8 | This method of judgement is relevant whenever tasks and their solutions have not been completely specified in advance . |
| 9 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that GPs were encouraged to introduce computerisation partly by an offer of Government funds to refund the cost of that process and , in districts such as the Wessex health authority , those funds have not been fully forthcoming ? |
| 13 | The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision . |
| 14 | Greatly to her relief , the first visit of the little girls to the hospital to see their parents had n't been nearly as traumatic as Laura had feared . |
| 15 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 16 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 17 | Up to that time the maritime needs of the two countries had not been very demanding . |
| 18 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 19 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 20 | There was also a good deal of evidence , by the late 1980s , that the cultural self-consciousness of the minority nationalities had not been adversely affected by their increasing urbanisation , industrialisation and ability to use the Russian language . |
| 21 | However , such areas have not been well characterized in physiological and anatomical studies . |
| 22 | Today 's town patrols have not been very busy , but as it is hot and it 's summer , they are n't too concerned . |
| 23 | These concerns have not been greatly alleviated by subsequent reported cases . |
| 24 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |
| 25 | The most successful zones have not been where the public sector has withdrawn , but where ( as in Corby or the Isle of Dogs ) one public-sector agency has been able to acquire and to service land for private developers and occupiers . |
| 26 | Enterprise zones have not been environmentally harmful ; in many cases standards have greatly improved . |
| 27 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 28 | However , the addition of these fats has not been universally accepted and some members of the EC and the US maintain that the cacao portion of chocolate , which includes cocoa butter , must be from pure cacao nib , which contains approximately 55 per cent true cocoa , otherwise the product must be described as chocolate flavoured . |
| 29 | In particular , responsibilities had not been adequately defined , and , although the Ships ' Masters had raised concerns , the lack of any appropriate feedback system meant they fell by the wayside . |
| 30 | I daresay he might have appeared more cheerful if his responsibilities had not been so heavy . |