Example sentences of "not been [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the father of eleven children ( laughter and applause ) — I have not been a disciple of Dr Malthus but you will clearly understand that , while I appreciate the ladies , I am strongly of the opinion that they have their proper station in life ( Hear ! |
| 2 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 3 | He was appointed lector at the Oxford Franciscan convent , but in 1253 a dispute arose at his presentation to incept as a doctor of theology , the opponents of the friars challenging his eligibility , as he had not been a master of arts . |
| 4 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 5 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 6 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The past year has not been a year of successful treatment or progress . |
| 8 | It would have been surprising had there not been a ripple of unease running through the Jenkins family . |
| 9 | It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation . |
| 10 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 11 | I have not been a thief for seventeen years , chance would be a thing . |
| 12 | If you want to make the most out of your interviews with professional people , ensure that they will be prepared to take you seriously because they know you have not been a time-waster in the past . |
| 13 | ‘ Beardsley had not been a regular under Kenny Dalglish and even Graeme Souness had left him out . |
| 14 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 15 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 16 | Our experience generally in North Yorkshire 's been over the last ten years that overall , there have been exceptions , but generally overall , there 's not been a problem about local plans drying up and then allocations drying up over the period , generally . |
| 17 | Mr Tutton blamed it on a type of narrow laser beam used in early operations and said it had not been a problem for the British patients . |
| 18 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 19 | Soviet interest in foreign technology therefore has not been a response to detente , but to perceptions of internal need , and increases in trade flows have not always coincided with greater political relaxation . |
| 20 | Apart from those two demands , which were almost certainly hoaxes , there has not been a cheep from anybody . |
| 21 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 22 | the problem has not been a lack of information the problem has been a saturation of information |
| 23 | There has not been a reduction since last September and the Government is no longer in a hurry to cut again . |
| 24 | Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications . |
| 25 | Short-term contract working in its traditional form has not been a subject of substantial political or academic concern , but questions have been asked as to whether the " new " short-term contract working in manufacturing is displacing regular working or undermining the conditions of the regular labour force . |
| 26 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 27 | So it has no official status whatsoever and has not been a subject of consideration by the County Council . |
| 28 | The adjudicator , C. Jordan , had not been a member of the Academy when the problem was originally posed , and it seems from his official report that he was not apprised of Smith 's priority . |
| 29 | Serrano had not been a member of the Falange prior to 1937 , but he had been a close personal friend of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and , after the war , became a fervent advocate of his ideas . |
| 30 | By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . |