Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [not/n't] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is the old truism that the beneficiaries of urban policy in both Britain and the United States have not always been those for whom the policy was apparently designed . |
| 2 | Maybe so , but IBM has n't exactly been quiet on the soap box either — look around and you 'll see plenty of advertising from them — which is where the ‘ better DOS than DOS and a better … ’ quote came from . |
| 3 | In any case , Titfords have not exactly been famous for their military prowess over the centuries , so we should cherish young John 's gesture . |
| 4 | Robert had not yet been able to fathom why this was the case . |
| 5 | It was not just the quickness of the child , but something indefinable ; something that that fool Spatz had n't even been aware of . |
| 6 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 7 | Winbush had n't really been any help . |
| 8 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 9 | The economic impact of the arts in New York has not however been obvious to the city 's business leaders or to its city government , says William Luers , president of the Metropolitan Museum . |
| 10 | Despite his subsequent recovery to something like his old form , Fox has n't quite been able to stop the shrinking process . |