Example sentences of "not been [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night .
2 And last night Trevor Bush , Loganair 's technical chief executive , said yesterday had not been their best day .
3 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
4 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
5 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
6 Unionists are also taken aback but Fermanagh-South Tyrone MP Ken Maginnis said : ‘ It has not been my personal experience that the RUC Special Branch gambles with the lives of potential IRA victims .
7 It had not been my direct responsibility to purchase it and I was operating in a field where everyone else — the companies from which I might buy , those from which we now bought , and the management of the division — was an expert .
8 That of course had not been his prime reason for going to Rhodes .
9 By all accounts , or at least by his wife 's , that had not been his first concern .
10 In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting .
11 Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race .
12 He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so .
13 However , this had not been his original intention .
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