Example sentences of "[pron] have not [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been a river man all these years for nothing . ’ |
| 3 | No I have n't been a Hawaiian wedding . |
| 4 | The 1966 World Cup winner , starting his caretakership of the Potteries club , said : ‘ I have not been a vulture on Mick 's back — and he knows that . ’ |
| 5 | While I have not been a wildly flag-waving Canadian I am proud of my birthplace and continue to admire Canada and Canadians immensely , which sentiments must not be taken as damning with faint praise . |
| 6 | I have not been a thief for seventeen years , chance would be a thing . |
| 7 | As the father of eleven children ( laughter and applause ) — I have not been a disciple of Dr Malthus but you will clearly understand that , while I appreciate the ladies , I am strongly of the opinion that they have their proper station in life ( Hear ! |
| 8 | We came to live in the south side of the city , and joined the local parish church which , by coincidence , had been Leslie 's mother 's church ; he himself had not been a member , nor had I attended it . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , fraud in itself has not been a sufficient inducement to force agricultural reform . |
| 10 | No you 've not been a good boy ? |
| 11 | She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine . |
| 12 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 13 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 14 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 15 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 16 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 17 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 18 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 19 | Instead , she had not been a burden , either in my mind or , more importantly , in her own . |
| 20 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 21 | Since she had not been a UK resident for longer than 3 yrs , you had kindly found a policy which charged ‘ only' £14 extra . |
| 22 | ‘ You are not responsible and you have n't been a disaster . |
| 23 | You have n't been a toilet yet , in teach of habit |
| 24 | If you want to make the most out of your interviews with professional people , ensure that they will be prepared to take you seriously because they know you have not been a time-waster in the past . |
| 25 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 26 | There has not been a reduction since last September and the Government is no longer in a hurry to cut again . |
| 27 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 28 | There has not been a rigorous research study which attempts to relate the cluster of managerial viewpoints concerning strategic uses of information resources and information technology to the information services infrastructure of organisations . |
| 29 | But not all of these have been discovered at the 1:50000 scale , and there has not been a systematic ley hunt over all 204 sheets . |
| 30 | Thanks to DDT there has not been a case of locally-transmitted malaria in Sicily since the early 1960s . |