Example sentences of "[vb past] not [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks were regarded as significant given that on previous visits to the United States , the Dalai Lama had not been granted a meeting with the President . |
| 2 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 3 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 4 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 5 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 6 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 7 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 8 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |
| 9 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 10 | The line had not been run a week before all Europeans connected with it were discharged , and the whole thing was controlled by the Chinese , who had carefully watched the progress of the work , and had stored up a vast mass of data for future use . |
| 11 | Yet when Luzma , my sympathetic travel agent , took me in a taxi down to contrabando in Cuzco , it had not been to buy a camera . |
| 12 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |
| 13 | In the particular case in question , the complainant 's father had not been offered a bed by the health authority , although he was assessed as needing nursing care . |
| 14 | During that pause I realized that Mala had not been offered a seat , nor any food or drink . |
| 15 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 16 | The government on March 14 , 1990 , reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on a second structural adjustment programme ; Congo 's first such programme , initiated in 1985 [ see p. 34406 ] , had not been considered a success . |