Example sentences of "[verb] not been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applebey concluded that , whilst useful to lawyers , the pre-trial review in the county court civil action has not been of enormous assistance to the ordinary person trying to conduct his or her own case . |
| 2 | So far Probyn has not been to impressed with the results . |
| 3 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 4 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
| 5 | This has not been without considerable sacrifice and testing of faith . |
| 6 | This has not been at all easy . |
| 7 | Wilf Medlam 's labour of love has not been in vain . |
| 8 | ‘ When I tell you why I have asked you to come here , I think you may feel your journey has not been in vain , ’ he said , and his shoulders heaved , rising and falling with silent mirth . |
| 9 | Yawl has not been in perfect health this spring . |
| 10 | The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history . |
| 11 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 12 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 13 | As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums . |
| 14 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
| 15 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 16 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 17 | It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm . |
| 18 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 19 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 20 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 21 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 22 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 23 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 24 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 25 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 26 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 27 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 28 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 29 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 30 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |