Example sentences of "not been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 2 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 3 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 4 | IR systems have not been designed for end-users and require the skills of an intermediary . |
| 5 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 6 | " The cabinets have not been cleaned for years . " |
| 7 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 8 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 9 | The army itself seems unsure of this proposition , perhaps because it is waiting to see who is most likely to meet its wage bill : many soldiers have not been paid for months . |
| 10 | SIX weeks after the Braer disaster , Shetland farmed salmon may be starving to death because compensation has not been paid for losses , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 11 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 12 | The only other entrance was a small door to the left of the sanctuary but that was closed with a padlock , rusting with age , and obviously had not been opened for years . |
| 13 | I see Tunze systems where the Biogranules have not been changed for years , and even undergravel filters with less than one inch of gravel covering their surface . |