Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 2 | Nicolo shifted unhappily in the little gilt chair that had certainly not been made for a man 's body . |
| 3 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 4 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 5 | The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot . |
| 6 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 7 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 8 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 9 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 10 | There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down . |
| 11 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 12 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 13 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 14 | At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings . |
| 15 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 16 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 17 | We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’ |
| 18 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 19 | As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies . |
| 20 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 21 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 22 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 23 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 24 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 25 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 26 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 27 | Russell was later told he had n't been selected for the world cup . |
| 28 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 30 | 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 . |