Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] not been " in BNC.

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1 They 'd still not been replaced .
2 They had just not been prepared to support a lost cause .
3 And since then they had never not been together .
4 Growing deafer , moreover , as they had certainly not been deaf as babies .
5 This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media .
6 But the families say they have still not been told anything by the health authority .
7 Whether those arguments are valid or not , they have certainly not been a deterrent : the big bang is an ever-expanding field of research .
8 However , as the majority of schemes proposed was to have been in small towns where there was already a relatively good provision of council houses , they have often not been implemented .
9 The pair of them had probably not been having an affair for long — only perhaps after Kemp 's long infatuation with the semi-permanently sozzled Sheila had begun to wear off .
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