Example sentences of "not been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Tillett , regarded by many as the British equivalent of Larkin in language and syndicalist beliefs and whose attacks upon more conventional trade union officials twenty years earlier had not been unlike Larkin 's , saw the writing on the wall . |
| 2 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 3 | ‘ We now know that BSE exists on the Continent and there has not been one case in a Welsh herd . ’ |
| 4 | During the same period , there has not been one prosecution for corruption , although it is no secret that the economy is dominated by powerful politicians with access to cheap state funds , import licences and influence . |
| 5 | It 's not been much fun so far , ’ she said mournfully . |
| 6 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 7 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 8 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 9 | there 's not been much change |
| 10 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 11 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 12 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 13 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 14 | The problem has not been Black people 's failure to report incidents , but police failure to act by providing support and protection to Black victims and taking action against perpetrators . |
| 15 | I returned to London and the Prime Minister made clear what I had always known , that , had he not been stricken down , he would have made a speech on the Saturday at Blackpool saying that he was going on . |
| 16 | But none of these principles could have been exploited or pursued in the ways in which they were had there not been tacit approval and support on the part of the state . |
| 17 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 19 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 20 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 21 | Scholars have not been four weeks connected with the school up to the Sabbath preceding the Festival not to be eligible for admission . |
| 22 | The dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes , through lack of motivation and the organised working class , due to its size and nature , resulting from peripheral capitalist development , have not been revolutionary forces in the region . |
| 23 | She had not been that way before . |
| 24 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 26 | Have you not been well Jo ? |
| 27 | There have not been good things . |
| 28 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 29 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 30 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |