Example sentences of "has not been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times . |
| 2 | Despite its enormous restructuring problems , Big Steel has not been Japan 's greatest raiser of cash . |
| 3 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 4 | Faith ‘ Our baby is without a father because he has not been man enough to face up to his responsibility , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences . |
| 6 | The most quantitatively significant development in terms of content this century has not been rehabilitation but deterrence ( through the massive expansion in the use of the fine , as we saw in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 7 | THE MEAN CALCULATION HAS NOT BEEN HAND CHECKED , BUT SEEMS STRAIGHTFORWARD . |
| 8 | THE most important news for the economy in the last week or so has not been Mr Lamont 's Budget , nor the Government 's travails over the Maastricht treaty , but the challenge to President 's Yeltsin 's Government in Russia . |
| 9 | Their duties include the determination and monitoring of policy but there has not been research into this or any aspects of Probation Committees ' work . |
| 10 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 11 | There has n't been any attempt about savings , or reduced commitments or any , or everything is here , and if it has n't been attempts , perhaps we could have a list of what 's actually been removed . |
| 12 | Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger . |
| 13 | There has n't been duty on books since 1860 , when it was seen as a tax on knowledge . |
| 14 | There has n't been duty on books for more than a hundred and thirty years , in 1860 it was seen as a tax on knowledge and abolished . |
| 15 | The need for development has to be established and so erm I refute the fact totally that there has n't been pressure for development in the countryside , that 's certainly not the case . |
| 16 | It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’ |
| 17 | It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’ |
| 18 | If it has n't been invaders from without it 's been subversion from within . |
| 19 | Oh I I would be it would be nonsense to say that there has n't been failings of the system , sometimes through the carelessness of an officer , sometimes , certainly in the initial stage , because of their lack of awareness of the er provisions of the act . |
| 20 | There has n't been time , ’ she said . |
| 21 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 22 | ‘ I have written to Joe about it , ’ Maureen said , ‘ but there has n't been time for a reply yet . ’ |