Example sentences of "not been " in BNC.
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| 31 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 32 | Lucy was her immaculate self at work in the morning ; they had a drink in the pub , and it was as if that evening , the story , the kiss , the flowers , had not been . |
| 33 | ‘ The Weem women have not been behind-hand — they would have stormed Castle Menzies on their own. , ‘ There is a bit more spirit down our way — more spirit and more cash . ’ |
| 34 | For years it had not been worked . |
| 35 | He had not been seen since Castle Menzies . |
| 36 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 37 | They themselves had not been so . |
| 38 | Sedition , mobbing , rioting ( so ‘ sedition ’ had not been dropped ) . |
| 39 | The word had not been there when she left that morning . |
| 40 | You know you 've not been interested in sex for years . ’ |
| 41 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 42 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 43 | She must have seen many similar noses in Rosenberg 's neighbourhood , but how she felt about the similarity has not been recorded . |
| 44 | If this is not done then the full range of triceps movement has not been achieved and full contraction will not be carried out , thus inhibiting development . |
| 45 | In the particular case in question , the complainant 's father had not been offered a bed by the health authority , although he was assessed as needing nursing care . |
| 46 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 47 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 48 | But multiple-aspect signalling has not been ( nor ever will be ) universal . |
| 49 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 50 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 51 | So far it has not been put to the test in service . |
| 52 | Since the introduction of the business sectors of BR , Railfreight has not been slow to totally eliminate certain freight-only routes where an alternative existed , albeit , invariably longer . |
| 53 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 54 | However if this way of jumping from two feet to two feet had not been combined with well picked-up pas de bourrée piqués and relevés retirés as well as extremely accurate , quick ports de bras with straighter and more angled than rounded arms , they would have seemed out of place . |
| 55 | The end result is an immature beer that has not been allowed to breathe and condition in the cask and which tastes flat and gassy in the glass . |
| 56 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 57 | He says Benskins , Allied 's Watford-based subsidiary , have not been unpleasant . |
| 58 | Vital repairs have not been carried out . |
| 59 | In Rex 's terms that means the malt and hops are organic and finings have not been used in the production ; not that finings affect the organic status of the brew , but Rex objects on vegetarian grounds . |
| 60 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |