Example sentences of "have not been very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 2 | The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability . |
| 3 | Our year has not been very eventful . |
| 4 | ‘ Britain has not been very good at getting the ideas out of universities . |
| 5 | Our experience of multilingual and multinational federations has not been very good . |
| 6 | LET's experience of working with ‘ name ’ architects has not been very fruitful . |
| 7 | Similarly , the policy of refusing employment in the desirable areas to general practitioners has not been very effective because even these areas have not had their government quota of general practitioners . |
| 8 | The enemy has not been very active since the 10th August and I somehow miss the occasional mortar burst in the area , or the odd German shell passing over . |
| 9 | World travel market attended , the club promotion , although it 's still running , has n't been very successful , over four hundred bed nights into the campaign , as a result of that short running promotion . |
| 10 | Somebody did suggest that we ask Betty 's husband , but if he has n't been very helpful with the auditor , perhaps he 's not very keen on . |
| 11 | He has , he has n't been very active actually |
| 12 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 13 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 14 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 15 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 16 | Someone had not been very intelligent , he thought . |
| 17 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 18 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 19 | Up to that time the maritime needs of the two countries had not been very demanding . |
| 20 | Erm and as part of that committee I believe we 've not been very successful . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 23 | According to the papers , he had n't been very complimentary about me recently . |
| 24 | The government has attempted some favela removal programs , but these have not been very successful , mainly because the new housing schemes are too expensive . |
| 25 | The museum 's own commercial activities , always criticised as unsuitable for a prominent national institution , have not been very effective . |
| 26 | ‘ They have not been very helpful . |
| 27 | Maybe I 'm being a bit harsh on philosophers , but they have not been very kind to me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Today 's town patrols have not been very busy , but as it is hot and it 's summer , they are n't too concerned . |
| 30 | 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 . |