Example sentences of "[vb past] not [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 2 | First , when the original assessment had been raised in February 1984 , W had not been uncertain within the meaning of s 247(8) about the beginning and end of the period ; and second , further leave would be required from the Special Commissioner to revise the accounting period of an extended time limit assessment . |
| 3 | Wark , who had not been shy of venturing upfield for corners and free-kicks , struck the penalty cleanly enough , but against the crossbar . |
| 4 | It had not been necessary for him to be there . |
| 5 | The war had not been necessary at all , and could have been prevented . |
| 6 | Such oblations to the darkness of the early evenings had not been necessary in previous years when , whatever the season , bright hour and night hour had been dedicated to the service of his flock there were Masses to be said , sick to be visited , meetings to be chaired , burial services to be conducted , bereaved to be comforted . |
| 7 | The development officer said she felt the project had been unable to help much , because of the attitude of the relatives ; the principal carer had not been relieved in any way , and therefore her preference for institutional care ( without the ability to make it happen ) remained . |
| 8 | The taxation in itself , however heavy , could hardly have sparked off so violent a conflagration if conditions had not been appropriate for it . |
| 9 | He had won in the maiden class , for those who have yet to win a prize , in 1975 , but he had not been successful since moving into the growers ' section . |
| 10 | The Campaign had not been successful in influencing the Trade Unions , possibly because it had been officially characterized as an individual agitation by a few wealthy members . |
| 11 | A prisoner had been taken who reported a possibility that the Emperor was with those forces , but the prisoner had not been certain of that fact . |
| 12 | President George Bush said yesterday that a special US anti-terrorist team had been sent to El Salvador on Tuesday but had not been involved in ending the siege . |
| 13 | Murray Lawrence & Partners , which stressed that Mr Lawrence had not been involved in recent negotiations , said it would receive $20 million next January , another $20.8million in July and $22 million in January 1996 . |
| 14 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 15 | Poles had fought both for and against Germany , and , partly because their state had not been involved in the war , Poles were ready — unlike the other participants in the war — to fight again , this time for something in which they had a stake . |
| 16 | Besides , TANU members had been involved in the press , while they had not been involved in radio . |
| 17 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 18 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 19 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 20 | He also emphasised his concern that the FEC was not being included in the process of dissociation and had not been involved in discussions on social and economic issues with Slovenia . |
| 21 | Danov also declared his conviction that Bulgarian agents had not been involved in the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II . |
| 22 | Our first assumption , that non-respondents would tend to be teachers who had not been involved in a review , proved to be unfounded . |
| 23 | I 'm not , I 'm not doing that , what I 'm challenging is the consortiums decision to award the contract to a company who had not been involved in that particular area as opposed to a company that had . |
| 24 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 25 | Graham Berry , the SAC 's director of finance , said he had not been involved in the decision . |
| 26 | None the less , this was a significant change from the days of the old CEB , which ( though hedged about by precise legal requirements on matters such as pricing ) had not been subject to government limits on finance ( choosing to raise its fixed-interest capital without government guarantee ) and had ignored ministerial requests when it felt they were unjustified ( being protected against the sanction acquired by the Minister in 1947 : the power of dismissal ) . |
| 27 | These were leaders who had not been subject to party screening or peer review and had succeeded almost exclusively on the strength of their appeal to mass electorates . |
| 28 | He described it as " regrettable " that positions taken in the UN Security Council by the EC 's two permanent Security Council members — the UK and France — had not been subject to prior agreement among the 12 EC members . |
| 29 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |
| 30 | The contract included limits for external financing which had not been subject to overall control previously , and set RENFE a variety of financial objectives including a reduction in its call on state funds . |