Example sentences of "[verb] not [be] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 2 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 3 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 4 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 5 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 6 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 7 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 8 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 9 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 10 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 11 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 12 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 13 | LIFESPAN can be set to automatically offline modules which have not been accessed for a configurable latency period . |
| 14 | This section describes those facilities available within LIFESPAN to transfer modules to offline storage automatically when they have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 15 | Alternatively , an automatic offline requestor ( STOREMAN ) is available to select modules which have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 16 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 17 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |