Example sentences of "has [not/n't] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ .
2 This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising .
3 Applebey concluded that , whilst useful to lawyers , the pre-trial review in the county court civil action has not been of enormous assistance to the ordinary person trying to conduct his or her own case .
4 Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot .
5 He added : ‘ I 'm astounded he has not been on the fringe of the Dutch team . ’
6 Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago .
7 Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 .
8 An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art .
9 High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s .
10 There , the emphasis to date has not been on regulation per se , but on building a culture sensitive to the management of conflicts of interest .
11 The emphasis amongst researchers on gender , therefore , has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education .
12 ‘ My mind has not been on dust , Emilia . ’
13 But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside .
14 Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war .
15 So far Probyn has not been to impressed with the results .
16 But the celebration of the Friend , which sometimes takes the form of an apparent self-abasement by the Poet , has not been to everyone 's liking .
17 In profit-oriented organizations this emphasis has not been to the exclusion of performance measures for the simple reason that , because of the existence of the profit measure , the stewardship accounts can be analysed to yield pointers to performance .
18 It is — The Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , laughs and cackles , but I have no doubt that she has not been to Archway Tower .
19 Well this i that 's a lunch club rumour because that one has not been to airport
20 Although the Church was slow off the mark following the population migration and concentration in the expanding towns during the Industrial Revolution , failure has not been for want of trying .
21 He has returned to the Players ' Championship and the New Orleans tournament after a six-week lay-off with eight rounds in which he has not been over par and has been under five times .
22 The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience .
23 Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’
24 The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 .
25 If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this .
26 Erm I must say I share Peter 's view here that the er location of the new settlement , whether in general terms or by district , has not been through the public consultation process .
27 To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood !
28 A correspondent from the Financial Times reported after a visit to Battambang on Jan. 24 that the city " is not , and has not been under siege " .
29 The resurrection has not been without pain , however .
30 The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems .
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