Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times . |
2 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
3 | Faith ‘ Our baby is without a father because he has not been man enough to face up to his responsibility , ’ she said . |
4 | Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences . |
5 | The most quantitatively significant development in terms of content this century has not been rehabilitation but deterrence ( through the massive expansion in the use of the fine , as we saw in Chapter 2 ) . |
6 | THE MEAN CALCULATION HAS NOT BEEN HAND CHECKED , BUT SEEMS STRAIGHTFORWARD . |
7 | Their duties include the determination and monitoring of policy but there has not been research into this or any aspects of Probation Committees ' work . |
8 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
9 | There has n't been duty on books since 1860 , when it was seen as a tax on knowledge . |
10 | There has n't been duty on books for more than a hundred and thirty years , in 1860 it was seen as a tax on knowledge and abolished . |
11 | The need for development has to be established and so erm I refute the fact totally that there has n't been pressure for development in the countryside , that 's certainly not the case . |
12 | It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’ |
13 | It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’ |
14 | There has n't been time , ’ she said . |
15 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
16 | ‘ I have written to Joe about it , ’ Maureen said , ‘ but there has n't been time for a reply yet . ’ |
17 | as if there 'd not been trouble enough with Daisy , without we 've this now . |
18 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
19 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
20 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
21 | The pants , she said , had not been part of the deal . |
22 | Although evidence given in earlier hearings had suggested that on at least one occasion Ministry of the Interior " reserve funds " had been used for GAL-related activities , the trial judges in their 170-page verdict concluded that the group had not been part of " the apparatus of the state " . |
23 | And he agreed with Mr Rogers that the kicking or stamping injuries to the body had not been life threatening . |
24 | It was as if the men had not been kind |
25 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
26 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
27 | It had not been charm alone , and it certainly had not been favouritism that had taken Fergus on his upward journey . |
28 | All that slim , rounded , unclothed flesh I 'd seen — from the back — had not been girl flesh . |
29 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
30 | It had not been charm alone , and it certainly had not been favouritism that had taken Fergus on his upward journey . |