Example sentences of "not been [vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It claims the annual American-South Korean military exercises , known as Team Spirit , are a threat to the North ; that the Americans still have nuclear weapons in South Korea ; and that the South has not been inspected for nuclear bases . |
| 2 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 3 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 4 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 5 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 6 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 7 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 8 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 9 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 12 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
| 13 | Head circumference had not been recorded for 137 men , but this could be estimated from the two head diameters by using the regression equation derived from the 1042 records which included the circumference and both diameters . |
| 14 | Permission has not been granted for large extensions . |
| 15 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 16 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 17 | The passage into law has failed fully to satisfy campaigners who argue that proper parity has still not been won for Scots families . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A charge of public exhibition of indecent acts or things had not been brought for 100 years , since a showman was convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of an indecent exhibition . |
| 20 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 21 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 22 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 25 | WORKERS at Monktonhall Colliery , who have not been paid for seven weeks , are to receive financial assistance from Lothian Regional Council to fund an independent study into the pit 's viability . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years . |
| 28 | She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years . |
| 29 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 30 | Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed … |