Example sentences of "not been [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 2 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 3 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 4 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 5 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 6 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 7 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 8 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 9 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |
| 10 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 11 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 12 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |
| 13 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 14 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 15 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 16 | In this generation there has not been any doubt about his identity . |
| 17 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 18 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 19 | However , there have not been any reports of point mutations in the remaining FMS allele in patients with a 5q deletion . |
| 20 | There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy . |