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 . |