Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British front in this battle has not been one of the easiest . |
| 2 | It has not been one of those lives where people are rejected and say , ‘ I 'll show them . ’ |
| 3 | But 1992 has not been one of his better years with only ten winners so far . |
| 4 | The 1991 summer has not been one of the best for tourism in mid Wales and this has been reflected in the passenger loadings over the BR system and , once September came in , things turned particularly quiet with the local line stated to be absolutely dead . |
| 5 | The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 6 | IT HAS not been much of a week for Welsh politicians because the country 's resounding rejection of Mr Neil Kinnock has been followed by the decision of the International Rugby Board to ignore the reservations expressed by the Welsh Rugby Union and to hold the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 7 | Scrappy success has not been typical of Cardinal Vaughan 's start to the season . |
| 8 | With regard to the second , as noted above , teaching study skills across the curriculum has had some impact on thinking but has not been typical of the action taken by project schools . |
| 9 | The stability of the enterprise conditions of calculation that develop in the East Asian example has not been productive of the formation of high-risk entrepreneurial behaviour as firms launch into speculative and unrelated lines of business . |
| 10 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
| 11 | Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature . |
| 12 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 13 | Erm er I 'm she has n't been critical of me . |
| 14 | ‘ Although it has n't been one of the happiest experiences of my life either , ’ she added in a low voice . |
| 15 | I 've taken eight antidepressants over the last ten years , Prozac has n't been one of them I must admit . |
| 16 | She has n't been one of the harvesters , she 's been but a gleaner , but God has provided for her . |
| 17 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 18 | She has n't been aware of it before . |
| 19 | Wark , who had not been shy of venturing upfield for corners and free-kicks , struck the penalty cleanly enough , but against the crossbar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 22 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 23 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 24 | Suzi 's answer had not been one of unalloyed enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 26 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 27 | His letter from Houston had been an update , filling in a range of details that had not been capable of being fitted into coded messages to and from Houston in the form of price-lists of market produce . |
| 28 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 29 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 30 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |