Example sentences of "[verb] not been in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The child is right , this escalator , like so many on the London Underground network , has not been in operation for months . |
| 4 | This runs through an existing tunnel , but it has not been in operation since 1970 . |
| 5 | Soil : The favourite growing medium for waterlilies is heavy garden soil that has not been in contact with insecticides or weed killers . |
| 6 | Mrs Bolger who 's expecting a baby next month has not been in court but her husband Ralph sat through the first two days . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 9 | Dundonnell Stores had not been in operation long . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 11 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 12 | The humiliation was worse because it was so public , and it was a good thing that Annabel had not been in New York when the news broke , when gloating gossip writers had jammed Scott and Annabel 's home phones with their venomous questions . |
| 13 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 14 | He had not been in court that morning after all ? |
| 15 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 16 | Yet most of the content of this crisis had passed Poland by : the Polish state had not been in existence . |
| 17 | Clearly she had not been in favour of Jenny 's alliance with Matthew . |
| 18 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 19 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 20 | But just think if the family had not been in touch with the Bengali Action Group or with any community workers , what sort of state of fear they 'd live in . |
| 21 | Certainly Alain Lemarchand had not been in touch , unless you counted thought-waves . |
| 22 | Russell Bryant had not been in touch for some time and she seemed to think he had given up . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Smith said Mr Curren had since left the pub and Spanswick had not been in touch with him since the incident . |
| 24 | He had not been in trouble before and acted totally out of character . |
| 25 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 26 | Only about one-third of the state sector secondary school teachers questioned by the University of Sheffield team for the Elton Committee reported that in their school corporal punishment had not been in use prior to 1987 when it became illegal . |
| 27 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 28 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 29 | Euratom would probably have run into similar difficulties even if the EEC had not been in place . |
| 30 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |