Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] be in " in BNC.

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1 The child is right , this escalator , like so many on the London Underground network , has not been in operation for months .
2 All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents .
3 Wilf Medlam 's labour of love has not been in vain .
4 A student who has not been in attendance for more than three days through illness or other cause must notify immediately either the course director or senior course tutor , or the research supervisor , who shall inform the Academic Registrar .
5 The current interest in problem solving arises from the recognition that : • problem solving is a common everyday phenomenon • problem solving can be taught and learned ( and has not been in the past ) • problem-solving skills are applicable in most fields • problem solving can be fun .
6 It has not been in the hobby quite that long , but has , I estimate , been around for well over 30 years , and was probably the first Apisto to be kept in captivity .
7 Soil : The favourite growing medium for waterlilies is heavy garden soil that has not been in contact with insecticides or weed killers .
8 ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team .
9 Discs has gone for promotion of the label en bloc , it has not been in the most obvious way , but it does typify the house sense of humour .
10 Welfare provision , too , can be higher in the capitalist West than in the socialist East , as the two Germanies illustrate ; and the migration of the poor across the Iron Curtain , as many remarked , has not been in the direction of socialism .
11 Interestingly , the place where this question has been raised most insistently has not been in the GATT or in Brussels , but in the American courts .
12 The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power .
13 Yawl has not been in perfect health this spring .
14 Equally , triumphalism of the dotty kind has not been in evidence at all ; nobody , for example , has let slip the belief that the present knowledge of genetics is so certain and detailed that the future of the human race can now be predicted .
15 ‘ When I tell you why I have asked you to come here , I think you may feel your journey has not been in vain , ’ he said , and his shoulders heaved , rising and falling with silent mirth .
16 I 'm not even sure that his main pleasure has not been in proving to Madame Duvalle that he was right about me .
17 ‘ Brother Tutilo has not been in my especial care until this journey , ’ he said carefully , ‘ but I have always found him truly devoted to our house of Ramsey .
18 Mrs Bolger who 's expecting a baby next month has not been in court but her husband Ralph sat through the first two days .
19 My Spurs mate has not been in the Railway Tavern , but has agreed to try it out .
20 This runs through an existing tunnel , but it has not been in operation since 1970 .
21 The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history .
22 ‘ This is the Government that has been in touch with the SNP in order to save themselves , but has not been in touch with the Dutch government in order to save Albion , ’ he said .
23 ‘ She has n't been in at all this week . ’
24 As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ?
25 As anyone who has n't been in a media-induced coma over the last ten years knows , her trite ditties are irrelevant to the story — IM
26 Oracle Corp has n't been in the applications business that long , but the company is already onto release 9 of its Oracle Applications suite of financial , government financial , manufacturing , and personnel applications .
27 The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task .
28 he has n't been in has he ?
29 It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm .
30 It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm .
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