Example sentences of "[noun sg] not been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 's winner , Quinlan Terry , would not have beaten the second horse , the subsequent Group One race winner Ile De Chypre , had that rival not been drawn on the far side . |
| 2 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 3 | Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman not been listening to the chorus of demands from the CBI , from the trade unions and now also from a number of Conservative newspapers for an increase in capital allowances for manufacturing industry ? |
| 4 | Such employees might well have claims for compensation against the UK government for defective implementation of the Directive , if they can show that , had the restriction not been included in the Regulations , their claim would have succeeded . |
| 5 | He went on to add that , had his interest not been channelled into the evangelical Protestantism of the Free Church , it would probably have led to him getting in with ‘ a bad crowd ’ and joining the tartan gangs of loyalist youths . |