Example sentences of "not been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 32 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 33 | What happens in two or three years time when the ANC 's political aspirations have not been met. ? |
| 34 | It was as if the men had not been kind |
| 35 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 36 | 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 … |
| 37 | All that slim , rounded , unclothed flesh I 'd seen — from the back — had not been girl flesh . |
| 38 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 39 | Their duties include the determination and monitoring of policy but there has not been research into this or any aspects of Probation Committees ' work . |
| 40 | If it had not been Con Gallagher it would have been someone else . ’ |
| 41 | as if there 'd not been trouble enough with Daisy , without we 've this now . |
| 42 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 43 | Her mother had been so excited at the attention paid to her , almost as if it had not been Louise but she herself who was attracting the attention of the young gentlemen . |
| 44 | THE MEAN CALCULATION HAS NOT BEEN HAND CHECKED , BUT SEEMS STRAIGHTFORWARD . |
| 45 | It could have attracted the highest-ever launch receipts if most of its audiences had not been children buying half-priced tickets . |
| 46 | THE most important news for the economy in the last week or so has not been Mr Lamont 's Budget , nor the Government 's travails over the Maastricht treaty , but the challenge to President 's Yeltsin 's Government in Russia . |
| 47 | Speaking from the society 's headquarters in Edinburgh , superintendent Ron Grant — a former shepherd — summed the situation up : ‘ It 's been one of the worst winters in the west Highlands for many years and for once it 's not been snow but rather rain which has caused the problems . |
| 48 | Full employment would never have occupied the attention of the government to the extent it did had there not been pressure to give both a commitment and some explanation of how it would be honoured . |
| 49 | Again the point was made that the government of the Republic had not been party to any agreement regarding the status of Northern Ireland . |
| 50 | 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 ] . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward . |
| 53 | It 's not been Bump for a week or two . |
| 54 | There 've not been trains in Barney for 30 years ; a lot of them had never seen one in their lives . ’ |
| 55 | Many of these had not been Christians for very long . |
| 56 | The most quantitatively significant development in terms of content this century has not been rehabilitation but deterrence ( through the massive expansion in the use of the fine , as we saw in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 57 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 58 | Had the topic not been abortion , unambiguously a women 's issue , the correct inference might not have been drawn . |
| 59 | It had not been McAllister 's night from dead ball situations and the consequences had been widespread . |
| 60 | Oh I 'll tell you later why she 's not been sort of I 'll tell you in a bit . |