Example sentences of "have not be [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the bridging fund has not been applicable to many of the circumstances farmers have been needing to apply for . ’ |
| 2 | Education has not been immune from this process , and some would argue that it has helped to create new social divisions . |
| 3 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 4 | While awaiting the views of the European Court , will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that Presbyterians in Scotland enjoy shopping on Sundays and that has not been detrimental to those who wish to attend church ? |
| 5 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 6 | With respect , I shall not give way because my hon. Friend has not been present for much of the debate . |
| 7 | Since no legislation has been passed to reduce socio-economic inequalities in industrial discipline and since trade union activity has not been concerned with such issues either , it is almost certain that little change has taken place in the years since this study . |
| 8 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 9 | Time has not been kind to this view either . |
| 10 | The Macari honeymoon period is in full swing and there 's a determination and self-belief about the players which has n't been visible for some time . |
| 11 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
| 12 | The war had not been necessary at all , and could have been prevented . |
| 13 | The development officer said she felt the project had been unable to help much , because of the attitude of the relatives ; the principal carer had not been relieved in any way , and therefore her preference for institutional care ( without the ability to make it happen ) remained . |
| 14 | A prisoner had been taken who reported a possibility that the Emperor was with those forces , but the prisoner had not been certain of that fact . |
| 15 | I 'm not , I 'm not doing that , what I 'm challenging is the consortiums decision to award the contract to a company who had not been involved in that particular area as opposed to a company that had . |
| 16 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 17 | Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired . |
| 18 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 19 | It was frustrating to be cut off from such a view but of course the original builders of the house had not been impressed by such aesthetic considerations . |
| 20 | A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths . |
| 21 | Her therapist had , naturally , put it to her that she had married her first husband just because he resembled her father , but Scarlet had rejected the suggestion quite emphatically : he had been a quiet , timorous boy until he discovered the excitement of chasing women , and he had not been artistic at all . |
| 22 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 23 | It was felt that to date such support had not been forthcoming in this region due to the prevailing indigenous political bias for private enterprise and to the lack of meaningful local government itself under direct rule . |
| 24 | It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed . |
| 25 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 26 | He had deliberately laid them aside this time , though he had not been aware of any direct instruction from his heart to do so . |
| 27 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |
| 28 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 29 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 30 | He had n't been aware of any recent marks but , then , he was n't very clever at noticing that kind of detail . |