Example sentences of "n't been " in BNC.

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31 All this in the most magnificent scenery , a national park where the natural forest has n't been logged for years and grazing sheep is prohibited so as not to upset the natural balance .
32 Naturally , if he can borrow he borrows ; but that is a lark that has n't been ‘ on ’ in this country , taking one year with another , for the last ten years or more .
33 Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope .
34 Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground .
35 If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten .
36 If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band .
37 If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group .
38 We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment .
39 ‘ They have n't been in touch with me since so I 'm wondering what they 're going to do about it , ’ said Stuart .
40 Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while .
41 The situation has n't been helped by the downward spiral of the quality of our native shore fishing coupled with an upward tweaking of many minimum size limits .
42 I have n't been to an organized campsite for perhaps fifteen years , so all this is new to me .
43 But when you consider today 's high prices , should we have to pay more — especially when the service has n't been good ?
44 The product that has n't been absorbed is causing these unsightly specks .
45 ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’
46 Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately .
47 The girl in the mortuary had n't been anything like five feet nine , but you could n't expect an aunt to tell the height of a prone corpse .
48 ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time .
49 ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end .
50 Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’
51 He paused and with a shifty , fidgety look , said , ‘ D' you know what Hatton 'd have done that Saturday if he had n't been killed ?
52 There 's still some old leaves that ai n't been brushed up yet , so I kick at them as I go along .
53 It had n't been an unusual day .
54 ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets .
55 If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’
56 ‘ You have n't been waiting here since school ended , have you ?
57 ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire .
58 ‘ They have n't been restored or retouched .
59 There has n't been one yet .
60 ‘ Mr O'Shea , ’ she said sternly , ‘ you have n't been doing your exercises properly . ’
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