Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences .
2 Their duties include the determination and monitoring of policy but there has not been research into this or any aspects of Probation Committees ' work .
3 Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger .
4 There has n't been duty on books since 1860 , when it was seen as a tax on knowledge .
5 There has n't been duty on books for more than a hundred and thirty years , in 1860 it was seen as a tax on knowledge and abolished .
6 The need for development has to be established and so erm I refute the fact totally that there has n't been pressure for development in the countryside , that 's certainly not the case .
7 It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’
8 It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’
9 If it has n't been invaders from without it 's been subversion from within .
10 Oh I I would be it would be nonsense to say that there has n't been failings of the system , sometimes through the carelessness of an officer , sometimes , certainly in the initial stage , because of their lack of awareness of the er provisions of the act .
11 There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol .
12 ‘ I have written to Joe about it , ’ Maureen said , ‘ but there has n't been time for a reply yet . ’
13 Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people .
14 With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy .
15 The pants , she said , had not been part of the deal .
16 Although evidence given in earlier hearings had suggested that on at least one occasion Ministry of the Interior " reserve funds " had been used for GAL-related activities , the trial judges in their 170-page verdict concluded that the group had not been part of " the apparatus of the state " .
17 What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ?
18 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
19 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
20 She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all …
21 Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other .
22 It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her .
23 Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I.
24 Many of these had not been Christians for very long .
25 Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression .
26 Again the point was made that the government of the Republic had not been party to any agreement regarding the status of Northern Ireland .
27 Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] .
28 There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas .
29 At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward .
30 For one thing , there had not been time for the more remotely-seated lords to arrive , if indeed many of them heeded the summons ; and the Balliol supporters , of course , remained absent .
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