Example sentences of "[noun] have [not/n't] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , business schools have not been able to show that the Graduate Admission Test ( verbal and mathematical abilities ) correlates with subsequent performance as a manager . |
| 2 | Organizations have not been slow in devising reward systems . |
| 3 | The women 's organizations have not been able to work with the communities of displaced people in El Salvador , nor with refugees in Honduras or Guatemala , for fear of reprisals . |
| 4 | In the battle for Jalalabad , which appeared to have reached deadlock this week , the mujaheddin fighters have not been prepared to fight as a single force , and the most famous guerrilla commander , Mr Ahmad Shah Massoud , has declined to join the battle . |
| 5 | So far , sales of the Packman have not been massive , admits the company . |
| 6 | Profits on a £1m turnover have not been spectacular . |
| 7 | Two main factors stand in the way of adventurous design , MacCormac believes : ‘ In the inner cities , the cost of land has been so high that individual homes have not been economic ; in the country , local planning committees are one of the big barriers . |
| 8 | Such data have not been available for the public sector in England and Wales until the OPCS Survey of School Leavers ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Purchasers of health care have tried to adjust their expected intervention rates to allow for activity in the private sector , but the calculations have been extremely crude because local data have not been available . |
| 10 | The universities and polytechnics have not been slow to innovate with new techniques . |
| 11 | Intermediate Treatment needs enormous enthusiasm , imagination and energy in the design and carrying out of projects , and the necessary resources of staff and funds have not been forthcoming . |
| 12 | Hitherto such emphasis and recognition have not been current , nor , I believe , has there been sufficiently widespread recognition of the need to spread the information we have to those who should use it — it may therefore be appropriate to end this chapter with a few rude questions . |
| 13 | There are numerous additional examples of this kind , which thirteen centuries of Romanised Pauline orthodoxy have not been able to eradicate . |
| 14 | Compared with the case in which A and B have not been pre-trained , the consequence of A-X and B-Y associations having been pre-established would be that a new response could be acquired very readily by stimulus A without any increase in the extent to which generalization occurs to stimulus B. |
| 15 | ‘ American companies have not been good at putting robots to work ’ , says Fred Sitkins , a specialist on robots at Western Michigan University . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ Many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost because our industry , our companies have not been able to compete in a fair contest . ’ |
| 17 | I just happened to feel it because the wounds have n't been healing Doctor , |
| 18 | Gets you , the reason why helicopters have n't been able to do loop the loop unless they 've got a lot of height , is because , obviously it pulls you up |
| 19 | But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge . |
| 20 | ‘ Since then relations with the team have not been good . |
| 21 | However , despite holding on to the Senate for a total of six years and securing further landslides in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections , the Republicans have not been able to bring about a real realignment — a fundamental reordering of political loyalties extending down through all levels of the political system . |
| 22 | ‘ These last two days have n't been easy for me . ’ |
| 23 | The past 10 years have not been easy for the profession . |
| 24 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 25 | The last ten years have not been kind to him . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 27 | Those expectations and responsibilities have not been static . |
| 28 | Lord Hailsham and Lord Denning have not been alone in their views as to what is wrong with the established constitution and what kind of new constitutional settlement is needed . |
| 29 | It is essential for archaeologists to approach their subject without personal or political prejudice , since past and present governments have not been averse to misusing archaeological data for nationalistic purposes . |
| 30 | Comments such as ‘ You ca n't do that ! ’ from Apple dealers have not been unknown ! |