Example sentences of "[vb past] not been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth . |
| 2 | In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’ |
| 3 | In legal terms it seemed that he was free to intervene ; his claim to exercise sovereignty in Aquitaine had not been renounced in 1360 . |
| 4 | In 1991 there were two new questions which had not been asked in previous Censuses ; one on limiting long-term illness and the other on ethnic origin . |
| 5 | A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 . |
| 6 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 7 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 8 | The Collector felt no confidence at all that her child had not been made in vain . |
| 9 | If the process of evolution had not been presented in this way ( though with careful caveats ) it is very questionable whether it could have been accepted so rapidly by Victorian society . |
| 10 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 11 | The secondary technical schools anticipated in 1944 had not been created in significant numbers , and the modern schools were required to fill the gap . |
| 12 | This was a significant discovery in that fusion had not been seen in toroidal discharges before . |
| 13 | When biologists studying these birds added extra shade to some territories , the birds exhibited something that had not been seen in this species before ; trigamy , males with three mates . |
| 14 | He had not been seen in public since 29 December , an indication that he was in trouble . |
| 15 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 16 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 17 | When enforcement was sought in Germany , the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf , holding itself required to examine the matter for itself under Article 27(2) of the Brussels Convention , held that service had not been effected in sufficient time to allow the defendant to make a defence . |
| 18 | The theory of games and the Prisoner 's Dilemma had not been invented in those days but , with hindsight , we can see pretty clearly what was going on , and Axelrod provides a fascinating analysis . |
| 19 | They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) . |
| 20 | Until a few years ago this test had not been performed in any species with a bizarre male form , and the theory remained a speculation , tentatively accepted by most ethologists in the absence of any plausible alternative . |
| 21 | There was a particularly high demand for the dental and ophthalmic services which had not been included in many of the pre-war insurance schemes . |
| 22 | Review of the case notes showed that coeliac disease had not been considered in any of these patients and the diagnoses that had been made were not supported by satisfactory evidence . |
| 23 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 24 | ‘ If the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had n't been crushed in 1920 by the Bolsheviks , it 's not yet clear who would be helping who now . |
| 25 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 26 | And er I can er no electricity had n't been put in that house because the one we moved into at , that had got electricity in it then . |
| 27 | In fact , he had n't been talking in aesthetic terms at all . |