Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adj] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 2 | Research by Friends of the Earth showing that commercial exploitation of peatbogs is not sustainable has been endorsed by English Nature . |
| 3 | By Elizabethan times it was familiar in every garden , and frequently referred to in records of the 13th and 14th centuries , although officially it is not supposed to have been introduced until 1573 . |
| 4 | Given that the annual cost of a Roman legion was 1.25 million denarii , this calculation shows that provincial bronze coinage is not likely to have been used to pay the wages of Roman legionaries . |
| 5 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 6 | These problems have been compounded in the 1980s by the government 's encouragement of the sale of council houses and by the rise in house prices in the owner-occupied sector , so that the acceleration in the urban-rural shift in the mid 1980s is not likely to have been caused by the lower paid . |
| 7 | In answer to this second argument it can be said that the education available to Desiderius of Cahors in the following century is not likely to have been any better , and yet he did write in the manner of earlier letter-writers . |