Example sentences of "not [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 2 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 3 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 4 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 5 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 6 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 7 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 8 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 9 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 11 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 12 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 13 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 14 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |