Example sentences of "have not [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We now know that BSE exists on the Continent and there has not been one case in a Welsh herd . ’ |
| 2 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 3 | During the same period , there has not been one prosecution for corruption , although it is no secret that the economy is dominated by powerful politicians with access to cheap state funds , import licences and influence . |
| 4 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 5 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 6 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 7 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 8 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 9 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 10 | In this generation there has not been any doubt about his identity . |
| 11 | There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy . |
| 12 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 13 | Since the proposal was published in November 1990 , there has not been sufficient time to assess the reactions of the earth science departments funded by NERC to it . |
| 14 | This is because there has not been sufficient time to build up goodwill connected with the name and , hence , there is little danger that the public will be confused . |
| 15 | Trish 's own career has not been plain sailing . |
| 16 | No , there has not been another report saying how well she did in the South Atlantic , the European parliament has not ‘ liberated ’ Britain 's £500 million rebate from the European Community , nor has the opposition to the new nuclear power station at Sizewell withdrawn from the public inquiry The news that the Prime Minister has awaited with bated breath ever since she visited CERN last year comes from Switzerland , and it has nothing to do with Zurich , or gnomes . |
| 17 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 18 | ‘ This one has been unfair to the players because there has not been enough cricket in between the Tests . |
| 19 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 20 | There has not been enough time to prepare properly for each of the Test matches . |
| 21 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 22 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 23 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 24 | She had not been that way before . |
| 25 | Even at Cambridge this had not been plain sailing , as the remarks attributed to Christopher Kicks make clear : |
| 26 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 27 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 28 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 29 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 30 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |