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 .
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