Example sentences of "[pron] have not been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 2 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 3 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 4 | At least , something which has not been seen for more than 20 years . |
| 5 | You have tried to perform a QA operation on a package which has not been submitted for approval . |
| 6 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 9 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 10 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 11 | The Supreme Court on July 17 refused the request of a pregnant Californian woman to retain possession of a French-made abortion drug , RU-486 , which had not been approved for use in the USA . |
| 12 | LIFESPAN can be set to automatically offline modules which have not been accessed for a configurable latency period . |
| 13 | Alternatively , an automatic offline requestor ( STOREMAN ) is available to select modules which have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 14 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 15 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 16 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 17 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 18 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 19 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 20 | Digfar was run almost entirely by local Somali staff — 25 doctors and nearly 100 nurses — who had not been paid for over two years . |
| 21 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 22 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 23 | WORKERS at Monktonhall Colliery , who have not been paid for seven weeks , are to receive financial assistance from Lothian Regional Council to fund an independent study into the pit 's viability . |
| 24 | If you have not been called for interview within four weeks of the closing date of , please assume that your application has been unsuccessful . |
| 25 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and regret to advise that you have not been selected for interview . |
| 26 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 27 | In answer to the second part of my hon. Friend 's question about population planning assistance to the former Soviet Union , although we have not been asked for such help , last week I agreed that £2 million-worth of medical aid should be spent in the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 28 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 29 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 30 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |