Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It had not been Mrs Diggory who had told Lady Lavinia about herself and Benedict . |
2 | If you have not been contact with someone for some time and do not have a directory which is updated frequently , a quick phone call tell you whether your contact is still there or has moved on . |
3 | He says that until now the company 's marketing drive has ‘ not been Telepoint led ’ , and instead pitched at selling the handsets as ‘ a quality cordless phone ’ . |
4 | Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ? |
5 | His name in those far-off days had not been Fedorov ; he had been the youngest son of a noble family , with high hopes of a distinguished military career . |
6 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
9 | Well I , I still do look er y you know but not er m you see last year th there 's not been bargains with erm , who was it who went bust ? |
10 | She told The European newspaper : ‘ We have not been neutrals : we have been more like accomplices . ’ |
11 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
12 | Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences . |
13 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
14 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
15 | The pants , she said , had not been part of the deal . |
16 | Although evidence given in earlier hearings had suggested that on at least one occasion Ministry of the Interior " reserve funds " had been used for GAL-related activities , the trial judges in their 170-page verdict concluded that the group had not been part of " the apparatus of the state " . |
17 | No but if it 's like , not been part of |
18 | And he agreed with Mr Rogers that the kicking or stamping injuries to the body had not been life threatening . |
19 | Faith ‘ Our baby is without a father because he has not been man enough to face up to his responsibility , ’ she said . |
20 | Political persuasion was required to keep up the political momentum , and given the changing age profile of the electorate — many of whom had not been adults a decade ago — Sir Geoffrey warned : ‘ We 've got to choose the style to match the mood of Britain . ’ |
21 | While SWAPO 's decision to opt for English as the official language reflects a wish to avoid conflicts between different indigenous languages , relatively few people who have not been refugees know English well , and this will have to be taken into consideration in teacher training . |
22 | Despite its enormous restructuring problems , Big Steel has not been Japan 's greatest raiser of cash . |
23 | It had not been charm alone , and it certainly had not been favouritism that had taken Fergus on his upward journey . |
24 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |
25 | It had not been charm alone , and it certainly had not been favouritism that had taken Fergus on his upward journey . |
26 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
27 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
28 | Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times . |
29 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
30 | What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ? |