Example sentences of "have not been particularly [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | However , attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful . |
5 | In oth other words , there have n't been particularly good value acquisitions that are strategically suitable for us . |
6 | 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 . |