Example sentences of "[verb] n't been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the work the Aborigines have produced is quite beautiful , especially where it has n't been corrupted by commercial interests . ’ |
| 2 | Another fine prospect is Adrian Davies , the Cambridge University captain , but he has n't been blessed with much luck recently and I hope his experiences in Australia , when some of his team-mates threw in the towel , will not have destroyed his confidence . |
| 3 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 5 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 6 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 7 | Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed … |
| 8 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 9 | Because it has n't been updated since 1973 some words which seems to have been around a while -palimony , Watergate and glasnost for instance have only just made it . |
| 10 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 11 | Now when that acid is fresh and has n't been used before two minutes is usually quite enough for it to have done the job it 's supposed to do . |
| 12 | If your cash has been in the same account for some time , make sure it has n't been closed to new customers . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 14 | Rude Pravo has n't been published for fifteen years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've told you , Rude Pravo has n't been published for fifteen years . ’ |
| 16 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 17 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 18 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 19 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |
| 20 | The women of America responded beyond his wildest dreams , but they may not have been quite so eager to help out if he had n't been blessed with such an abundance of sex appeal . |
| 21 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 22 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 23 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 24 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 25 | ‘ If the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had n't been crushed in 1920 by the Bolsheviks , it 's not yet clear who would be helping who now . |
| 26 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 27 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 28 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 29 | Joe had called her some names , and had n't been reassured at all . |
| 30 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |