Example sentences of "[vb past] not been [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Beardsley had not been a regular under Kenny Dalglish and even Graeme Souness had left him out . |
| 7 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There had not been a crisis for about six months , though , so it was clearly time for one . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Wycliffe suspected that the encounter between Fox and Clarence had not been a meeting of kindred souls . |
| 17 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
| 18 | He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star . |
| 19 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 20 | As the municipal elections had shown , the political parties ( especially the parties of the left ) enjoyed the confidence and support of a large section of the population , something which had not been the case with Giraud in 1943 . |
| 21 | As had not been the case throughout her first sojourn at the Lodge , she would start from her thoughts at some unexpected sound — a movement of the timbers , a mouse stirring in the wainscot , a drenched thrush fluffing its feathers in the thatch-eaves . |
| 22 | The Left was psychologically equipped for the reality of war , which had not been the case in 1914 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , the playgroup run by local parents had not been the success for Balbinder that we had hoped . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This return to the primitive had not been the object of our thoughts . ’ |