Example sentences of "have not been particularly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe that the negotiating position has not been particularly clever . |
| 2 | To date the 1992/3 winter has not been particularly serious and in the main the daily rake of 158s and 153s has run well . |
| 3 | However , this has not been particularly successful . |
| 4 | At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure . |
| 5 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 6 | It shows that in fact Germany 's economic performance , especially in recent years , has not been particularly impressive . |
| 7 | These provisions are an example of the recent trend of legislating against tax avoidance in an arcane and difficult fashion , leaving the Revenue to publish Practice Statements or press releases giving their interpretations ( though the Revenue has not been particularly forthcoming regarding " options arrangements " in Statement of Practice 3/93 which supersedes Statement of Practice 5/80 ) . |
| 8 | His life had not been particularly eventful or distinguished . |
| 9 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 10 | In the first edition of this book it was argued that levels of controversy over social policies since 1951 had not been particularly high . |
| 11 | Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker . |
| 12 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 13 | Her career in movies from the age of seventeen had not been particularly distinguished . |
| 14 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 15 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful . |
| 20 | In oth other words , there have n't been particularly good value acquisitions that are strategically suitable for us . |
| 21 | There have been times when in order to maintain that kind of standard , you had to do things that have n't been particularly popular . |