Example sentences of "not [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 . |