Example sentences of "have not [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Importing the ingredients through wholesalers has not been a problem . |
| 2 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 3 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 4 | Our Metro has not been a particularly healthy child and its latest illness is a pair of prematurely-worn front seats , the only set with such a problem in the whole of the UK . |
| 5 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 6 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 7 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 8 | JANUARY has not been a distinguished month for the Thai police . |
| 9 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 10 | While Robinson was involved with Paisley and McQuade in the demonstrations against the invitation of Charles Haughey , then the Republic 's Prime Minister , to the enthronement of the Church of Ireland Primate in Armagh in May 1980 , he has not been a conspicuous street demonstrator . |
| 11 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 12 | There has not been a reduction since last September and the Government is no longer in a hurry to cut again . |
| 13 | By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , fraud in itself has not been a sufficient inducement to force agricultural reform . |
| 15 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 16 | Entrepreneurship has not been a significant mechanism for social mobility in Latin America . |
| 17 | The development of a right of parents and pupils to see the pupil 's personal school record has not been a specifically education issue but has arisen as part of the wider campaign for access to personal records . |
| 18 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |
| 19 | But this has not been a wholly successful operation . |
| 20 | There has not been a rigorous research study which attempts to relate the cluster of managerial viewpoints concerning strategic uses of information resources and information technology to the information services infrastructure of organisations . |
| 21 | It has not been a wholly successful policy . |
| 22 | Until now this has not been a matter of overwhelming importance because there was provision for appeals to the LEA against the governors ' findings . |
| 23 | But not all of these have been discovered at the 1:50000 scale , and there has not been a systematic ley hunt over all 204 sheets . |
| 24 | Thanks to DDT there has not been a case of locally-transmitted malaria in Sicily since the early 1960s . |
| 25 | The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers . |
| 26 | There has not been a total severance with education , however , as the trust still allocates money to young people of the parish for further and higher education . |
| 27 | As yet , however , there has not been a corresponding overhaul and harmonisation of the member countries ’ legal systems . |
| 28 | Fiona Allison was the main designer of our banners and since she moved away in 1989 there has not been a group — you ca n't call one person a group ! |
| 29 | ‘ Unfortunately , when I have played for England before there has not been a player of his quality or sort in the side . |
| 30 | ‘ There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’ |