Example sentences of "have not been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ I 'm astounded he has not been on the fringe of the Dutch team . ’ |
| 3 | Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago . |
| 4 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 5 | An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art . |
| 6 | High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s . |
| 7 | There , the emphasis to date has not been on regulation per se , but on building a culture sensitive to the management of conflicts of interest . |
| 8 | The emphasis amongst researchers on gender , therefore , has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education . |
| 9 | ‘ My mind has not been on dust , Emilia . ’ |
| 10 | Enzo , the Jove of the motor-racing world , who may get all the statistics and results and data from the circuit but has n't been on the inside of modern racing on the track since prehistoric days , announces to the world that Lauda is n't taking care of his car , he neglects his work , he 's got himself married and buggers off home and more of the same . |
| 11 | And I should n't wonder if Potter has n't been on his knees peering through the railings . ’ |
| 12 | The sarcophagus , they told me , is not one of the Museum 's more interesting possessions , and has n't been on display since 1904 . |
| 13 | Dropping anchor and manoeuvring into the quayside puts a good dinghy sailor who has n't been on a small cruiser before under considerable strain . |
| 14 | Denis , who has n't been on stage for decades , has n't a nerve in his body . |
| 15 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 16 | too but this one , he has n't been on nights . |
| 17 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 18 | Horowitz drove back to Freiburg in a philosophical mood — the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes had not been on the list . |
| 19 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 20 | He explained that although the lad had not been on the mainline before , he was a good , reliable and sensible lad . |
| 21 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 22 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |
| 23 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 25 | Only that you 've not been on his bike or yesterday . |
| 26 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 27 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 28 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 29 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 30 | I had n't been on a ferry for years . |