Example sentences of "not been [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain .
2 But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have .
3 But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective .
4 So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies .
5 Indeed , as far as I am aware , there have not been any previous accidents of this nature within the tunnel .
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