Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There has not yet been much debate about prices .
2 I feel that the subject of syllabic consonants is an area that we need to know more about , and that there has not yet been enough discussion of the problems found in their analysis .
3 YOUTH hostelling , in my experience , has not always been plain sailing .
4 But life had not always been that way with Moby .
5 If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors .
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