Example sentences of "not been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 2 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 3 | Such extensive managerial powers had not been built in to any of the LEA pilot schemes of financial delegation in existence before 1988 although schools ' experiences had often entailed a change in managerial approach ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 4 | It is important to distinguish between such lexical analysis of uncontrolled terms in thesis titles , ( which has not been carried out in any detail in the present study but which is one of the factors analysed in a paper in preparation by the author ) , and the subject classification carried out by Rolfe , Will and in the Laming list . |
| 5 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 6 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
| 7 | This question has not been taken up in any serious way . |
| 8 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
| 9 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |