Example sentences of "not been the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , at district health authority and hospital level there have not been the practical measures needed to achieve that . |
| 2 | Curiously enough , though , this has not been the major concern of feminist work in the social science disciplines of linguistics and speech communication . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , for the Andes as a whole , compressive stresses arising from plate convergence have not been the major cause of uplift . |
| 4 | At the snowbound alpine inn of Kleine Scheidegg , Kartoffel had not been the only climber to get a taste of the good frau 's favours . |
| 5 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 6 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 7 | Of course , she has not been the only case . |
| 8 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 9 | The revived concern for retributive justice has not been the only response to the failure of the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 10 | Revolutionary changes in weapon technology had not been the only reason for the reimposition of the Ten-Year Rule . |
| 11 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 12 | Charles Marovitz in It had not been the only reviewer from the left dissatisfied with the Royal Shakespeare Company 's US on the Vietnam war . |
| 13 | Statistical computing has not been the only impact of modern technology on epidemiology since 1965 . |
| 14 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 15 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 16 | The fact that the UK government has done none of these things , leads one to suppose that a genuine improvement in the co-ordination of health and welfare services for the most vulnerable and disabled groups in society has not been the real objective . |
| 17 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |
| 18 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 19 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 20 | The 1974 World Population Plan of Action has not been the final word in the ongoing debate on this particular problem . |
| 21 | So there has not been the same emphasis on ease of use . |
| 22 | Arsenal boss George Graham feels he has not been the same player since he co-starred for England against Turkey . |
| 23 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 24 | The care of the sick had not been the main concern of the House of Industry , and early personal records are lacking , but the workhouse master kept a weekly journal , the earliest entry in which is dated April 23rd 1842 . |
| 25 | Though there is a case to be made for its use as an educational medium — and the BBC 's contribution to the Open University at Milton Keynes has been considerable , if politically questionable , and will continue despite the closure of their studios in a fine example of accountant 's false logic — this has not been the main area of impact . |
| 26 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 27 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 28 | In my view , a although there 's a current debate about this there has not been the fullest public consultation and I would er myself be minded to invoke the er E C directive on this er in order to try and er to make sure that the the public feel they are fully aware of what the proposals are . |
| 29 | Short term this has enabled the UK to maintain a state-of-the-art capability , although there has not been the desired reduction in the total percentage of the defence budget committed R&D . |