Example sentences of "have not been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conferences , committees , grandiose planning of operations divorced from day-to-day contact with laboratories and clinics , and the blind screening of endless substances have not been notably efficacious . |
| 2 | However , in the face of increasing restraint on public expenditure , these have not been notably successful . |
| 3 | Whether this can be achieved is debatable because management schemes implemented to date have not been uniformly successful due to the tremendous variation in ecology and terrain . |
| 4 | But it is perhaps worth noticing here that firms have not been conspicuously forthcoming with offers to fund the schools , and the DES itself has had to put up considerable sums to support the first of them . |
| 5 | Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study . |
| 6 | Enterprise zones have not been environmentally harmful ; in many cases standards have greatly improved . |
| 7 | After that time , you have no liability — provided you have not been grossly negligent with your card . |
| 8 | As we have already seen , attempts to explain the rapid changes in complex behaviour simply in terms of contingent relations between behaviour and the environment have not been particularly successful . |
| 9 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful . |
| 12 | Many health workers have not been well prepared to use information during their basic training , and others have lost those skills through lack of practice . |
| 13 | Their involvement in those parts of the management plan in which they have not been previously interested will be taken on and driven by the possibly irresistible surge of the whole school 's development . |
| 14 | It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful . |
| 15 | Iberia 's forays into Latin America have not been entirely happy . |
| 16 | Some bookmakers have not been entirely happy with their new placing in the Down Royal set-up and there had been grumblings about taking the matter to a higher authority . |
| 17 | ‘ I wonder if you have not been somewhat naive , ’ Tranter said reflectively . |
| 18 | It is worth noting , however , that the spending priorities have not been radically dissimilar from those planned by the outgoing Labour government , which also planned for cuts in spending on education and housing and an expansion in spending on defence , law and order , and social security . |
| 19 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 20 | … courts have not been so strict in denying the validity of consideration where a moral duty was performed , as they have in holding agreements invalid as against public policy where they contemplated a violation of the same duty . |
| 21 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 22 | But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude . |
| 23 | In the past , Chelsea teams have not been so disciplined , and have given away silly goals . |
| 24 | Tarmac shareholders have not been so lucky . |
| 25 | While NME has thrived , dipped , flourished , teetered and survived , countless others have not been so lucky . |
| 26 | Schools elsewhere have not been so lucky . |
| 27 | Ye know it not , and ye have not been there any more than we ’ . |
| 28 | The government has attempted some favela removal programs , but these have not been very successful , mainly because the new housing schemes are too expensive . |
| 29 | The museum 's own commercial activities , always criticised as unsuitable for a prominent national institution , have not been very effective . |
| 30 | ‘ They have not been very helpful . |