Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [prep] [det] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
| 8 | She had not been in that position . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 11 | You have n't been outside that door for days . |
| 12 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 13 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 16 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 19 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I have n't been of much help to you , Mr Millet . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | We have n't been round this way for a while have we ? |
| 23 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 24 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 25 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |
| 26 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Obviously it 's a great thrill to be top of the table with Rangers because I have n't been in this position before . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been in this church for years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You have n't been in this neck of the woods for years , and I doubt if in all her life she 's been further than Blackpool . ’ |