Example sentences of "has n't [been] " in BNC.

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1 Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder .
2 If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride .
3 And we ca n't light a fire , the chimney has n't been swept . ’
4 ‘ What you have to do if there is an accident — and there has n't been one , thank heavens — is keep the spilled PCBs out of watercourses , because they would accumulate in the fat of organisms which came into contact with them .
5 That has n't been sold ’ .
6 It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze .
7 Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But when you consider today 's high prices , should we have to pay more — especially when the service has n't been good ?
13 The product that has n't been absorbed is causing these unsightly specks .
14 ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’
15 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 .
16 There has n't been one yet .
17 She has n't been for a long time .
18 Coloured , bleached , stonewashed , there 's little that has n't been done to denim .
19 There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one .
20 It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’
21 It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’
22 It has n't been easy .
23 It 's something quite beyond and more complicated than ‘ adolescence ’ , something that has n't been thought out yet , but should n't be dismissed as ‘ adolescent' ’ . '
24 That money and other needed support just has n't been forthcoming , and because of that the deserts continue to advance .
25 ‘ She has n't been in at all this week . ’
26 ‘ Angela 's taking a few days off — she has n't been well , ’ he said , easily .
27 Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series .
28 Has n't been announced yet . ’
29 Ironically , the only current movie which really is like a classic ghost story has n't been hyped as part of the fad .
30 Interior stowage room has n't been stinted , with cubbies , slots and trays everywhere .
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