Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Sucralose might never have been discovered had it not been for two Tate & Lyle scientists who deployed a basic research technique — they tasted it .
2 But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now .
3 Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d .
4 Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work .
5 Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored .
6 Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers .
7 After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 .
8 The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history .
9 I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are .
10 I have n't been to one of the meetings so I ca n't remember who the , but how are all these contained within the budget , all these costs , and have they all been approved and agreed ?
11 Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice
12 Cos I have n't been for two years since I 've been to that one !
13 It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now .
14 It has n't been for three years . "
15 You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days .
16 I have n't been for three years .
17 I I have n't been on one of our courses for a little while but I think that 's very similar to er
18 The telephone boxes are all covered with prostitutes ' phone numbers , the street-sweepers probably have n't been since 1968 , and there are left-over hippies in attics playing mad music all the time .
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