Example sentences of "[verb] not been a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 2 | It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation . |
| 3 | By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . |
| 4 | Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications . |
| 5 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 6 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 7 | Soviet interest in foreign technology therefore has not been a response to detente , but to perceptions of internal need , and increases in trade flows have not always coincided with greater political relaxation . |
| 8 | There has not been a reduction since last September and the Government is no longer in a hurry to cut again . |
| 9 | Short-term contract working in its traditional form has not been a subject of substantial political or academic concern , but questions have been asked as to whether the " new " short-term contract working in manufacturing is displacing regular working or undermining the conditions of the regular labour force . |
| 10 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 11 | So it has no official status whatsoever and has not been a subject of consideration by the County Council . |
| 12 | ‘ The past year has not been a year of successful treatment or progress . |
| 13 | the problem has not been a lack of information the problem has been a saturation of information |
| 14 | Apart from those two demands , which were almost certainly hoaxes , there has not been a cheep from anybody . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thanks to DDT there has not been a case of locally-transmitted malaria in Sicily since the early 1960s . |
| 17 | ‘ Unfortunately , when I have played for England before there has not been a player of his quality or sort in the side . |
| 18 | Elder abuse has not been a priority for research or for developing practice guidance for social workers and other staff who have direct contact with older people . |
| 19 | ‘ And attracting visitors has not been a priority of the château for a very long time . |
| 20 | Until now this has not been a matter of overwhelming importance because there was provision for appeals to the LEA against the governors ' findings . |
| 21 | As I have made clear , for some time the question of recognising Yugoslav republics , especially Croatia and Slovenia , has not been a matter of principle — clearly they will not be willing to go back into any entity called Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | Mr Tutton blamed it on a type of narrow laser beam used in early operations and said it had not been a problem for the British patients . |
| 23 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 24 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 25 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 26 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Beardsley had not been a regular under Kenny Dalglish and even Graeme Souness had left him out . |
| 28 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 29 | The adjudicator , C. Jordan , had not been a member of the Academy when the problem was originally posed , and it seems from his official report that he was not apprised of Smith 's priority . |
| 30 | Serrano had not been a member of the Falange prior to 1937 , but he had been a close personal friend of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and , after the war , became a fervent advocate of his ideas . |