Example sentences of "had not been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 2 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 3 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 4 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 5 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 6 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 7 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 8 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 9 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 10 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 11 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 12 | The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot . |
| 13 | Mr Wormwood 's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver , the colour this time of a tightrope-walker 's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season . |
| 14 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 15 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 16 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 17 | At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings . |
| 18 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 19 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 20 | ‘ He had n't been beaten for a long time , and was very confident so I think defeat came as a bit of a shock . |
| 21 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 22 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 23 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 24 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 25 | Russell was later told he had n't been selected for the world cup . |
| 26 | He 'd explain that in the kerfuffle last night he had n't been paid for the jobs he 'd done . |