Example sentences of "not been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its A-minus rating has been put on probation , out of fear of ballooning deficits ; it might indeed have met sterner treatment had 1989 not been a mayoral election year . |
| 32 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 37 | This high incidence of viral infection is perhaps all the more surprising since there has not been a great deal of flu around this winter so far , and many sufferers no doubt believed that they were going to escape altogether . |
| 38 | But , apart from there 's not been a great deal of er anthropological study of gypsies a as an ethnic group and you know , studying their and their relationship with the the common population . |
| 39 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 40 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 41 | Entrepreneurship has not been a significant mechanism for social mobility in Latin America . |
| 42 | But it had not been a smooth process . |
| 43 | Not been a comfortable shape . |
| 44 | In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be . |
| 45 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 46 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 47 | The broadening of aims and objectives has not been a sudden panic measure to the market forces of the 1990s but has been part of a professional and careful reassessment which has been in progress since at least the late 1960s . |
| 48 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 49 | It had not been a pretty sight . |
| 50 | They had gone out together but there had not been a sexual relationship between them as Faye had been unwilling to sleep with Harris , said Mr Chadd . |
| 51 | Yet Draper failed to mention that , in his exegesis of Scripture , Augustine had not been a hide-bound literalist . |
| 52 | The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders . |
| 53 | Ibrox had not been a Glaswegian one-night stand . |
| 54 | Despite its enormous membership , the LNU in the 1920s had not been a popular movement — it did not see its function primarily as campaigning to change Government policy . |
| 55 | Despite some rave reviews , Notes , which Lotus characterises as an enterprise but with a long sales cycle , has not been a runaway best-seller for the Cambridge company . |
| 56 | Despite some rave reviews , Notes , which Lotus characterises as an enterprise but with a long sales cycle , has not been a runaway bestseller for Lotus . |
| 57 | FOX : There is something in thy person that attracts everyone 's notice , but if a sack had not been a profane thing it would have become thee almost as well . |
| 58 | Since he had not been a public figure before the war , the mass of French people had no idea what he looked like . |
| 59 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 60 | We flew back to Heathrow ; it had not been a happy trip for me , full of niggling and snide remarks . |