Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [not/n't] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What has appeared as an intense , bitter and irreconcilable polarization has occurred partly because our basic moral concerns have not been the same . |
| 4 | Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series . |
| 5 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 6 | Yes , things have n't been the same since Fred fell down the cellar steps and broke his neck " |
| 7 | Things have not been the same on the operational side of the art business . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |
| 10 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 13 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |