Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [not/n't] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 2 | A representative of the 15-member Commonwealth observer group said that the elections had been free and fair , although the process had not been without incident and there were imperfections in the electoral lists . |
| 3 | Only about one-third of the state sector secondary school teachers questioned by the University of Sheffield team for the Elton Committee reported that in their school corporal punishment had not been in use prior to 1987 when it became illegal . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 5 | Maybe , as William strongly suspected , this first communion between the rat and the marmot had not been without violence and rattus rattus , being the little fucker he was , had savagely copulated with the small , pretty , squirrel-like creature — and then torn her throat out . |
| 6 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 7 | Yet most of the content of this crisis had passed Poland by : the Polish state had not been in existence . |
| 8 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 9 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 10 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 11 | But just think if the family had not been in touch with the Bengali Action Group or with any community workers , what sort of state of fear they 'd live in . |