Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 2 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 3 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 4 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 5 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |
| 6 | I think to do that erm to chairman , to define the Greater York area then to ten miles that would of course require a consistent calculation of the housing need requirement both the local need element and the hundred percent migration element which arises within that ten mile er area , to be consistent with erm the rest of the policy , and of course that calculation erm that consistent calculation er has not been done for that area . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 8 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 9 | In answer to the second part of my hon. Friend 's question about population planning assistance to the former Soviet Union , although we have not been asked for such help , last week I agreed that £2 million-worth of medical aid should be spent in the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | TYPE , PFND The Module type has not been specified for this module or is not S , F or M. Please specify a valid module type , S for a SOURCE module , F for a FOREIGN module , or M for a PMODEL module . |
| 11 | And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document . |
| 12 | It was owned by the Baron de Rochefort and his family , and visitors had not been encouraged for some time , as the Baron did not enjoy the best of health . |
| 13 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 14 | Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel . |
| 15 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 16 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 17 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 18 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 19 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 20 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 21 | Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years . |
| 22 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 23 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 24 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 25 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 26 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |