Example sentences of "[ex0] have not be [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’
2 Given these considerations , there has not been a managerial revolution .
3 A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years .
4 Well I can tell you , sir , that is incorrect , there has not been a cursory look at sites as Mr Frost has already underlined .
5 But not all of these have been discovered at the 1:50000 scale , and there has not been a systematic ley hunt over all 204 sheets .
6 There has not been a total severance with education , however , as the trust still allocates money to young people of the parish for further and higher education .
7 For it is quite clear that despite innovative legislation , the proliferation of enforcement agencies , the relatively new use of imprisonment for corporate offenders , and absolutely ( but not relatively ) large fines for offending corporations , there has not been a substantial brake on corporate crime .
8 Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times .
9 This high incidence of viral infection is perhaps all the more surprising since there has not been a great deal of flu around this winter so far , and many sufferers no doubt believed that they were going to escape altogether .
10 As yet , however , there has not been a corresponding overhaul and harmonisation of the member countries ’ legal systems .
11 One doctor said : ‘ There has not been a dramatic increase , but more people are definitely coming into casualty .
12 There has not been a single year when the CPS has been fully staffed .
13 There has not been a rigorous research study which attempts to relate the cluster of managerial viewpoints concerning strategic uses of information resources and information technology to the information services infrastructure of organisations .
14 As has been mentioned , one problem is that , when such cases have gone to tribunal , there has not been an overwhelming success —
15 While a great deal has been discovered about the physiology of sleep , and psychologists have developed reliable techniques for establishing when people are likely to be dreaming , there has not been an equivalent amount of progress in understanding the nature of dreams .
16 In my view , a although there 's a current debate about this there has not been the fullest public consultation and I would er myself be minded to invoke the er E C directive on this er in order to try and er to make sure that the the public feel they are fully aware of what the proposals are .
17 Short term this has enabled the UK to maintain a state-of-the-art capability , although there has not been the desired reduction in the total percentage of the defence budget committed R&D .
18 So there has not been the same emphasis on ease of use .
19 Who knows how long that fly might have lived if there had not been a battered ruler lying to hand .
20 They had gone out together but there had not been a sexual relationship between them as Faye had been unwilling to sleep with Harris , said Mr Chadd .
21 However , at district health authority and hospital level there have not been the practical measures needed to achieve that .
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