Example sentences of "[vb past] not [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 , . |