Example sentences of "have [not/n't] be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 2 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 4 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 5 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 6 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 8 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 9 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 10 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 12 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 13 | Johnson said : ‘ It just has n't been there for me . |
| 14 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 15 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 16 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 17 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 18 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 19 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 20 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 21 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 22 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 23 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 24 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 25 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 26 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 27 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 28 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 29 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 30 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |