Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [not/n't] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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1 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
2 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
3 | It has not been released for independent investigation or for investigation by BR experts , so it is not part of the evidence that is being considered at the BR internal inquiry now under way . |
4 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
5 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
6 | Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday . |
7 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |