Example sentences of "have not been an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a great deal has been discovered about the physiology of sleep , and psychologists have developed reliable techniques for establishing when people are likely to be dreaming , there has not been an equivalent amount of progress in understanding the nature of dreams . |
| 2 | As has been mentioned , one problem is that , when such cases have gone to tribunal , there has not been an overwhelming success — |
| 3 | Yet even those outside the profession will know it has not been an easy road recently . |
| 4 | 1992 has not been an easy year , but both the underlying business performance , BP 's general high reputation , and a tremendous buy-in by all of our people to the concept of teamworking makes me confident about 1993 , without expecting too much in the way of improvement in the overall economic environment . |
| 5 | However , amid rapid development and shooting commercial rentals in Wimbledon , this has not been an easy search . |
| 6 | We should consider Spain 's experience since joining the exchange rate mechanism because that has not been an easy option for Spain . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 8 | For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 10 | It has not been an easy ride , however . |
| 11 | The air campaign has not been an unqualified success in any of its missions . |
| 12 | It had not been an easy concept to grasp at first , but ‘ we 're getting better at being businessmen , ’ Mr. Lockley said . |
| 13 | It had not been an auspicious start to the year . |
| 14 | It had not been an unqualified success . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |