Example sentences of "not been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 2 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 3 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 4 | Horowitz drove back to Freiburg in a philosophical mood — the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes had not been on the list . |
| 5 | Completed in July 1991 , it now houses our colony of nine chimpanzees , who have not been on public display for over two years . |
| 6 | Now for a bee to know the location of a barren car park which had certainly not been on their list of flower sites , it seems most reasonable to suppose that they were able to ‘ place ’ it on some sort of internal map and then work out the direction home . |
| 7 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 8 | He explained that although the lad had not been on the mainline before , he was a good , reliable and sensible lad . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ I 'm astounded he has not been on the fringe of the Dutch team . ’ |
| 10 | Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago . |
| 11 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 12 | An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art . |
| 13 | High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s . |
| 14 | On 21 May , Christie 's New York will sell thirty-one Italian paintings from the Getty 's collection , most of which have not been on view for many years either due to their unsatisfactory condition or their downgraded status : a ‘ Rest on the Flight into Egypt ’ was described in 1963 as ‘ the greatest reward for visitors to the collection … by Orazio Gentileschi , a Caravaggesque masterpiece by an artist who had learned the lesson of realism ’ , only to be dubbed a later copy , probably Francesco Gentileschi , in the opinion of R.W. Bissel , the leading authority on the artist ( est. $50–70,000 ) . |
| 15 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 16 | There , the emphasis to date has not been on regulation per se , but on building a culture sensitive to the management of conflicts of interest . |
| 17 | The emphasis amongst researchers on gender , therefore , has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education . |
| 18 | ROS : I 've frequently not been on boats . |
| 19 | ‘ My mind has not been on dust , Emilia . ’ |
| 20 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ No , just a friend , ’ I said too quickly , before I realized that she had almost certainly not been on duty when Sal was brought in . |
| 22 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |
| 23 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 24 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 25 | Only that you 've not been on his bike or yesterday . |
| 26 | Actually , it 's not been on t' road . |
| 27 | Well has that one not been on the floor ? |