Example sentences of "[verb] not been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 2 | Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ? |
| 3 | Last night 's murders had not been bizarre slayings . |
| 4 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 5 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 6 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 7 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 8 | The dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes , through lack of motivation and the organised working class , due to its size and nature , resulting from peripheral capitalist development , have not been revolutionary forces in the region . |
| 9 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 10 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 11 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 12 | There have not been good things . |
| 13 | Scholars have not been four weeks connected with the school up to the Sabbath preceding the Festival not to be eligible for admission . |
| 14 | So is an appendix devoted to the umpires , from which it emerges that of the list of 31 only six have not been first-class cricketers : a healthy ratio surely . |
| 15 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 16 | However , there have not been any reports of point mutations in the remaining FMS allele in patients with a 5q deletion . |
| 17 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 19 | There have n't been many films that show Dublin as it really is . |
| 20 | Specialist plumbers will also be needed , but Nick Booth smiles wryly and says that , so far , there have n't been many takers . |
| 21 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 22 | Shaun should move to Milton Keynes — there have n't been any drugs here for ages . |
| 23 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |
| 24 | There have n't been any withdrawals , ’ she added anxiously . |
| 25 | His three sons are cathedral choristers : ‘ There have n't been three brothers together in the choir for about 12 years , ’ he says , with some pride . |
| 26 | Now , although I have great respect for er , the representative of the Osteoporosis Society I se , I still think as a epidemiologist that there have n't been enough women on H R T for long enough |