Example sentences of "[noun prp] have not been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 2 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 3 | Lucy had n't been a hundred per cent sure with Charlie , but here she felt certain . |
| 4 | JANUARY has not been a distinguished month for the Thai police . |
| 5 | Ibrox had not been a Glaswegian one-night stand . |
| 6 | Its move from Maddox Street to Hanover Square had not been a happy one . |
| 7 | As a result , Earl Robert had not been the only valuable prisoner taken , a fact that obviously rankled with Matilda . |
| 8 | ‘ Beardsley had not been a regular under Kenny Dalglish and even Graeme Souness had left him out . |
| 9 | I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy . |
| 10 | Weir has not been the only Scottish success story to report this week . |
| 11 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 12 | Their attack on the Centre LePen had n't been an unqualified success , but Duroc was pleased with the loss of life . |
| 13 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 14 | If Gustave had n't been the Bear , he might have been the Camel . |
| 15 | At the snowbound alpine inn of Kleine Scheidegg , Kartoffel had not been the only climber to get a taste of the good frau 's favours . |
| 16 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
| 17 | Serrano had not been a member of the Falange prior to 1937 , but he had been a close personal friend of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and , after the war , became a fervent advocate of his ideas . |
| 18 | Prince Charles has not been a frequent visitor to the province . |
| 19 | Yet Draper failed to mention that , in his exegesis of Scripture , Augustine had not been a hide-bound literalist . |
| 20 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 21 | Wycliffe suspected that the encounter between Fox and Clarence had not been a meeting of kindred souls . |
| 22 | Patrick had not been a demonstrative man . |
| 23 | Of course if Sarah had n't been a friend of the Princess of Wales the situation would have been far more difficult in the early stages . |
| 24 | Our Metro has not been a particularly healthy child and its latest illness is a pair of prematurely-worn front seats , the only set with such a problem in the whole of the UK . |
| 25 | George Braque has not been the subject of a major exhibition in Switzerland for over thirty years but Jean-Louis Prat , director of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda , is remedying the situation . |
| 26 | Poland had not been a particularly Polish entity before partition . |
| 27 | The dinner with the Schmidts had n't been a success . |
| 28 | Vanessa had n't been the first woman to indulge his taste in hand-made shirts and silk waistcoats , nor would she be the last . |
| 29 | We are very well looked after for money and food — the food here in Sian has n't been a patch on Peking ( where it was very good indeed ) , but we are n't grumbling — if we do n't like what they give us we ask for something different ( e.g. omelette ) and get it . |
| 30 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |