Example sentences of "[noun pl] have not [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 2 | So far the volume of queries has not been large , but this probably reflects the fact that many users get help from other users at their institution . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ It is no secret that the atmosphere in the past few months has not been easy . |
| 4 | Secretary John Coker said the fans had not been disappointed on their return , despite Aryle 's 2–1 defeat at Ayresome Park . |
| 5 | Rebus and his successors had not been aware of the true details of this massacre of prisoners . |
| 6 | Some initiatives may have been initially funded through Urban Programme expenditure : the enveloping of the external fabric of older dwellings and managed workshops ( discussed in Chapter 7 ) were initiated using the Urban Programme , but it would be difficult to argue that these would not have occurred if Urban Programme funds had not been available . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Organizations have not been slow in devising reward systems . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The universities and polytechnics have not been slow to innovate with new techniques . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a walk back to the inn and a half-hour wait , they set off again for Bath , very much relieved that matters had not been worse . |
| 15 | Mr Major rejected the appeal and insisted the donations from Nadir 's companies had not been illegal , even though they were not made public at the time . |
| 16 | If each of the other circumstances had not been complete , then if e occurred , cc was complete . |
| 17 | ‘ American companies have not been good at putting robots to work ’ , says Fred Sitkins , a specialist on robots at Western Michigan University . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge . |
| 20 | Although this planning took place so long ago , 300 years has not been long enough for the town to develop a soul . |
| 21 | Polly appeared to be no more susceptible , but then his expectations had not been high . |
| 22 | Since this policy was never implemented , the question of what would have happened if the resources for new hostels had not been forthcoming remains hypothetical . |
| 23 | Apart from extra weight , the years had not been unkind although she would n't get away with lying about her dress size for too much longer . |
| 24 | The years had not been kind to Robert Dexter . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The past 10 years have not been easy for the profession . |
| 27 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 28 | The last ten years have not been kind to him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Those expectations and responsibilities have not been static . |