Example sentences of "[noun] have not been a [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 marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 6 | In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be . |
| 7 | JANUARY has not been a distinguished month for the Thai police . |
| 8 | Ibrox had not been a Glaswegian one-night stand . |
| 9 | James Clappison , Yorkshire South , said Mr Heath 's intervention in the campaign had not been a conspicuous success . |
| 10 | Entrepreneurship has not been a significant mechanism for social mobility in Latin America . |
| 11 | Its move from Maddox Street to Hanover Square had not been a happy one . |
| 12 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 13 | But this race has not been a happy event for him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |
| 16 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 17 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 18 | Prince Charles has not been a frequent visitor to the province . |
| 19 | The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers . |
| 20 | Yet Draper failed to mention that , in his exegesis of Scripture , Augustine had not been a hide-bound literalist . |
| 21 | The killing had not been a rational act ; when he did it , Alex Household had been mentally ill . |
| 22 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 23 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 24 | Patrick had not been a demonstrative man . |
| 25 | FOX : There is something in thy person that attracts everyone 's notice , but if a sack had not been a profane thing it would have become thee almost as well . |
| 26 | The H registration year has n't been a good one so far for the car industry , but you have some successes . |
| 27 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 28 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |