Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 2 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 4 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 5 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |