Example sentences of "not been [verb] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children .
2 I do hope my son has not been making a nuisance of himself . ’
3 The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising .
4 He wished his first instinct had not been to conceal the traces of Tessa 's existence , but it had been .
5 They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds .
6 If Chris had n't been clutching a piece of leaf , would I have noticed a torn house plant ? some plants , like the aptly named deadly nightshade , do not reveal their effect until hours after ingestion , by which time it may be too late for effective treatment .
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