Example sentences of "[vb past] not been [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was appointed lector at the Oxford Franciscan convent , but in 1253 a dispute arose at his presentation to incept as a doctor of theology , the opponents of the friars challenging his eligibility , as he had not been a master of arts . |
| 4 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 5 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 6 | Wycliffe suspected that the encounter between Fox and Clarence had not been a meeting of kindred souls . |
| 7 | During the meeting Brooke reportedly expressed the dismay of the UK government at these refusals , and reported on progress with unionist parties on the possibility of talks on devolution , while Collins said that the recent judgments on extradition had not been the responsibility of the Irish government . |
| 8 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 9 | Since the picnic , the young man by the river had joined her twice ; she herself , interestingly , had not been the Helen of today but her own younger self and indeed not even that — some other girl who was both alien and deeply familiar , a doppelgänger , a mirror-Helen . |
| 10 | Pierre Reverdy , a young friend and supporter of Picasso and Braque , was quick to realize the fact that true Cubism had not been the product of pictorial doctrines and theories , and also that the search for the means of expressing a new concept of form and space had made Cubism a style of almost unequalled pictorial discipline . |
| 11 | After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing . |
| 12 | This return to the primitive had not been the object of our thoughts . ’ |
| 13 | At least it had n't been a look of animosity , as before , thought Juliet . |
| 14 | Of course if Sarah had n't been a friend of the Princess of Wales the situation would have been far more difficult in the early stages . |
| 15 | Your County Council spokeswoman implied that as there had n't been a lot of pedestrians injured or killed on Gubberford Lane a footpath was n't necessary . |