Example sentences of "not been in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 2 | A student who has not been in attendance for more than three days through illness or other cause must notify immediately either the course director or senior course tutor , or the research supervisor , who shall inform the Academic Registrar . |
| 3 | Just outside Abermule Station on the 26th January 1921 , this train met another head-on , resulting in the deaths of fourteen passengers including Lord Herbert Vane Tempest and Capt. Harold Owen , both directors of the Cambrian Railway and in whose company Haydn Jones should have been in the tea car that morning , had he not been in bed with a chill ! |
| 4 | Clearly she had not been in favour of Jenny 's alliance with Matthew . |
| 5 | Describing the plight of Somali children , it explains : ’ Many of them have not been in school for several years when they arrive in this country ’ . |
| 6 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 7 | Equally , triumphalism of the dotty kind has not been in evidence at all ; nobody , for example , has let slip the belief that the present knowledge of genetics is so certain and detailed that the future of the human race can now be predicted . |
| 8 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 9 | Soil : The favourite growing medium for waterlilies is heavy garden soil that has not been in contact with insecticides or weed killers . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 11 | The child is right , this escalator , like so many on the London Underground network , has not been in operation for months . |
| 12 | This runs through an existing tunnel , but it has not been in operation since 1970 . |
| 13 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 14 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 15 | You 've not been in trouble with your teacher again ? ! " |
| 16 | Since coming here , I 've not been in trouble for a year ’ . |
| 17 | He had not been in trouble before and acted totally out of character . |
| 18 | Russell Bryant had not been in touch for some time and she seemed to think he had given up . ’ |
| 19 | But just think if the family had not been in touch with the Bengali Action Group or with any community workers , what sort of state of fear they 'd live in . |
| 20 | Former Widnes boss Laughton , who first tempted the ex-Llanelli half-back to switch codes four years ago , said : ‘ I have not been in touch with Widnes about Jonathan Davies and it has never been discussed by our board . ’ |
| 21 | Laughton , the former Widnes boss who first tempted the ex-Llanelli half-back star to switch codes for a record £250,000 fee four years ago , said : ‘ I have not been in touch with Widnes about Jonathan Davies and it has never been discussed by our board . |
| 22 | He 's not been in touch with anyone since he left home : |
| 23 | Mr Smith said Mr Curren had since left the pub and Spanswick had not been in touch with him since the incident . |
| 24 | ‘ This is the Government that has been in touch with the SNP in order to save themselves , but has not been in touch with the Dutch government in order to save Albion , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The only paragraphs in Section 2 which does allow any exemption for individuals is that concerning emigres who " although of Russian blood " had " not been in USSR since 1930 " prior to their " joining the German forces " . |