Example sentences of "[verb] not been [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone with Walker 's pace and knowhow would be a prize addition to a defence which has not been at its ruthless best during the Gunners ' recent barren run . |
| 2 | ‘ Brother Tutilo has not been in my especial care until this journey , ’ he said carefully , ‘ but I have always found him truly devoted to our house of Ramsey . |
| 3 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 4 | Justicz commented on Oxford 's ‘ very nice ’ rhythm and felt the Dark Blues had been able to capitalise whenever Cambridge had not been at their best . |
| 5 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 6 | Even if Plácido Domingo had not moved Juan Pons , playing the mean and moody Sheriff of Puccini 's La Fanciulla del West , to barely-suppressed tears in the famous Act 3 aria , ‘ Ch'ella mi creda ’ — if , in other words , Domingo had not been at his committed best , which is quite something — the Scala audience would no doubt have roared its approval all the same . |
| 7 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 8 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 9 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 10 | ‘ You , that have not been near me all day , and would n't have been if I was dying ! ’ |