Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 2 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 3 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 4 | She glanced at her left hand as if she 'd forgotten the fact , and was instantly ashamed to find herself wishing she had n't been wearing the showy diamond solitaire . |
| 5 | Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison . |
| 6 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 7 | It is a shame that you have n't been having the gorgeous autumn which we have enjoyed . |
| 8 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |