Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’ |
2 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
3 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
4 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
5 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
9 | She had not been in that position . |
10 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
11 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
12 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
13 | You have n't been outside that door for days . |
14 | For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance . |
15 | Well , I do n't know cos I have n't been to any meetings for months , not |
16 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
17 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
20 | " I have n't been for some time . |
21 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
22 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
23 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
24 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
25 | I 'm afraid I have n't been of much help to you , Mr Millet . ’ |
26 | ‘ Oh all right , I have n't been inside this house since I used to come here to dances when your father was a boy . |
27 | We have n't been round this way for a while have we ? |
28 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
29 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
30 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |