Example sentences of "[noun] have not be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I discern that skating has not been a frequent pleasure in these parts ? ’ |
| 2 | The economic significance of capital maintenance in the balance sheets of public sector organizations has not been a major concern of accountants in the past . |
| 3 | A ‘ mixed economy of care ’ , with care being provided on similar terms by public and independent sectors , is not particularly new to local authorities , although the contracting of care from multiple organizations has not been a key policy in the past , more an ad hoc response to specific local problems . |
| 4 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 5 | The 1974 World Population Plan of Action has not been the final word in the ongoing debate on this particular problem . |
| 6 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 7 | Lucy had n't been a hundred per cent sure with Charlie , but here she felt certain . |
| 8 | In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be . |
| 9 | The air campaign has not been an unqualified success in any of its missions . |
| 10 | JANUARY has not been a distinguished month for the Thai police . |
| 11 | Ibrox had not been a Glaswegian one-night stand . |
| 12 | During the long post-war boom , argues Aglietta , such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism . |
| 13 | James Clappison , Yorkshire South , said Mr Heath 's intervention in the campaign had not been a conspicuous success . |
| 14 | What has appeared as an intense , bitter and irreconcilable polarization has occurred partly because our basic moral concerns have not been the same . |
| 15 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 16 | Entrepreneurship has not been a significant mechanism for social mobility in Latin America . |
| 17 | Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series . |
| 18 | Its move from Maddox Street to Hanover Square had not been a happy one . |
| 19 | As a result , Earl Robert had not been the only valuable prisoner taken , a fact that obviously rankled with Matilda . |
| 20 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 21 | Considerable evidence shows that , to date , those who have been successful through industrialisation and urbanisation have not been an independent , dynamic and progressive force in Latin America , but why ? |
| 22 | But this race has not been a happy event for him . |
| 23 | Weir has not been the only Scottish success story to report this week . |
| 24 | Some thought the scandal might have done better , in terms of audience ratings , if the name had not been the leaden ‘ Iran-contra affair ’ but something with panache , cloak-and-dagger stuff . |
| 25 | Their attack on the Centre LePen had n't been an unqualified success , but Duroc was pleased with the loss of life . |
| 26 | Yes , things have n't been the same since Fred fell down the cellar steps and broke his neck " |
| 27 | Things have not been the same on the operational side of the art business . |
| 28 | The broadening of aims and objectives has not been a sudden panic measure to the market forces of the 1990s but has been part of a professional and careful reassessment which has been in progress since at least the late 1960s . |
| 29 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 30 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |