Example sentences of "they have [not/n't] be [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by
2 They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny .
3 They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds .
4 Some have worked at Bentley pianos for forty years , but they have n't been offered a penny in redundancy pay .
5 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 .
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