Example sentences of "not [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | She told The European newspaper : ‘ We have not been neutrals : we have been more like accomplices . ’ |
| 4 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
| 9 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 10 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 11 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 12 | It could have attracted the highest-ever launch receipts if most of its audiences had not been children buying half-priced tickets . |
| 13 | There 've not been trains in Barney for 30 years ; a lot of them had never seen one in their lives . ’ |
| 14 | Many of these had not been Christians for very long . |
| 15 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |