Example sentences of "have not been so [adj] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	… 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 .
3	The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners .
4	But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude .
5	In the past , Chelsea teams have not been so disciplined , and have given away silly goals .
6	Tarmac shareholders have not been so lucky .
7	While NME has thrived , dipped , flourished , teetered and survived , countless others have not been so lucky .
8	Schools elsewhere have not been so lucky .
9	I have n't been so much involved in it as perhaps some other people and I do n't pretend to be an expert .
10	Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we .
11	There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures .

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