Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot . |
| 2 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 3 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 10 | We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’ |
| 11 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Russell was later told he had n't been selected for the world cup . |
| 18 | He 'd explain that in the kerfuffle last night he had n't been paid for the jobs he 'd done . |