Example sentences of "[noun pl] have not been a [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 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |
| 6 | 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 . |