Example sentences of "have not be [adj] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 2 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 3 | Even Switzerland , for many the model for a future federal Europe , has not been able to avoid this trend . |
| 4 | Others have not been able to confirm this association . |
| 5 | ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’ |
| 6 | Critics have not been slow to point this out ( i.e. Potter and Litton , 1985 ; Eiser , 1986 ) , or to dismiss curtly the novelty of the approach ( McGuire , 1986 ) . |