Example sentences of "not been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had that not been the price ? |
| 2 | It has demonstrated impressive institutional continuity ; it has not been the subject of serious attacks by the executive . |
| 3 | When buying extended works , the collector should make sure that they have not been the subject of depredations of this nature . |
| 4 | George Braque has not been the subject of a major exhibition in Switzerland for over thirty years but Jean-Louis Prat , director of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda , is remedying the situation . |
| 5 | However , the reasons for selecting these cut-off points has not been the subject of debate . |
| 6 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 7 | However , the playgroup run by local parents had not been the success for Balbinder that we had hoped . |
| 8 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 9 | In many agricultural projects this has not been the case . |
| 10 | This has not been the case with the LDDC , where a very extensive regenerative programme has characterized the corporation 's activities in an area of about 5,000 acres downstream of Tower Bridge ( see Figure 3 , p. xiii ) . |
| 11 | If this had not been the case , we would have had serious reservations about participation . |
| 12 | This has certainly not been the case . |
| 13 | In 1992 that has not been the case , and I ca n't really tell you why . |
| 14 | If this has not been the case , it will be up to the individuals to explain the reasons behind this . |
| 15 | At this level you need people like Mick playing at their best — and he has known times when that has unfortunately not been the case . |
| 16 | ‘ That has certainly not been the case in my time at this club . |
| 17 | But even if this had not been the case ( and there was a part of her that still believed that he 'd come that second time to explain , or apologize ) she would have found an excuse for returning to England , just to be out of Marlin 's company . |
| 18 | This has not been the case ; in fact most families have been pleased to know the diagnosis so early . |
| 19 | In practice , as Halsey , Heath and Ridge ( 1980 ) have recently shown , this has not been the case even for working-class boys . |
| 20 | This does not preclude the theoretical possibility of implementation in other technologies , such as fluidics ( see for example Gluskin , Jacoby , and Reader 1964 ) , although historically this has not been the case . |
| 21 | As we saw in Part II , this has not been the case with child language , where both comprehension and production have been extensively studied , with comparisons being made between the child 's spontaneous use and understanding of particular linguistic forms . |
| 22 | Had this not been the case , I should have had renown in |
| 23 | As had not been the case throughout her first sojourn at the Lodge , she would start from her thoughts at some unexpected sound — a movement of the timbers , a mouse stirring in the wainscot , a drenched thrush fluffing its feathers in the thatch-eaves . |
| 24 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 25 | This has not been the case so far this year with several results ’ , one of which is that ’ Government credibility has been severely tarnished , particularly with regard to perceived dedication to improved training . ’ |
| 26 | While this , with a suitable amount of information , might be the objective of public sector provision , it has , in fact , not been the case . |
| 27 | As the municipal elections had shown , the political parties ( especially the parties of the left ) enjoyed the confidence and support of a large section of the population , something which had not been the case with Giraud in 1943 . |
| 28 | The Left was psychologically equipped for the reality of war , which had not been the case in 1914 . |
| 29 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 30 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |