Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it existed , would also have been a causal circumstance for c , and , we might add , would not have been part of a causal sequence including cc . |
| 2 | In the morning she wondered if her inspection of the villa 's water-works might not have been part of a dream and looked carefully to confirm that the letter to Signora Kettering was still in her handbag . |
| 3 | This would not have been part of the usual flight to Los Angeles . |
| 4 | ‘ I had too much respect for Yule Craig and would not have been part of anything that let him down . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll do for me , I 've always voted Labour , ’ said the fan , who may or may not have been colour blind . |
| 6 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 7 | Dinosaurs could not have been moribund because they were still diversifying into new orders . |
| 8 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 9 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 10 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 11 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
| 12 | Altogether I probably interviewed about five hundred persons ( members , parents , deprogrammers , anti-cultists , media etc ) , but not all these interviews were conducted in a systematic way — that is to say , they were with people with whom I happened to make contact , and may not have been representative of the Unification population as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ Without your action there would not have been blood , Coptic blood , on the streets . ’ |
| 14 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
| 15 | Johnny hated Bella too much for there not to have been passion . |
| 16 | It need n't have been cricket ; that was almost an aside to my interest in the movements . |
| 17 | ‘ Could n't have been Erdle she saw , ’ replied Iris . |
| 18 | But it could n't have been Rebel . |
| 19 | And two women pictured chatting at a cottage door ‘ Miss Jewitt and Miss Carter , Mickley 1921 , ’ as Louisa 's typically matter-of-fact caption notes sport fanciful bonnets that ca n't have been part of their everyday dress . |
| 20 | You know , he should n't have been king . |
| 21 | It was an important fight , and she should n't have been conce with petty pickings like the hymn-singers . |