Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 2 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 3 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 4 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 5 | She had not been that way before . |
| 6 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 7 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 8 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 9 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |
| 10 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 11 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 12 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 13 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 14 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 15 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 16 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 17 | When we had parked there had n't been another vehicle in sight . |
| 18 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 19 | After 2 weeks , she reported back there had n't been any improvement but it turned out that she had bought herself some Arg Nit tablets as she did n't like the taste of the alcoholic water the LM was made up in ! |
| 20 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 21 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 22 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 24 | 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 . |