Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 2 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
| 3 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |
| 4 | New York was swathed in sunlight and the heat would have been stifling had it not been for a gentle easterly breeze blowing in from the Atlantic . |
| 5 | Cantona tried hard to get involved , and within five minutes might have stolen the show , had it not been for a fine interception by Keith Curle following a fine run and cross down the left by Lee Sharpe . |
| 6 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 7 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 8 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 9 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 10 | The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 . |
| 11 | Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years . |
| 12 | They 've not been in a flat |
| 13 | The Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology is the only centre in the United Kingdom able to provide such a pioneering operation which is only available through the N.H.S. If Mr. Thorpe had not been in a fortunate position of being able to register with a G.P. in a different Health Authority , he would not have had his operation . |
| 14 | In 1979 , the Cabinet of twentytwo contained only seven ministers ( Edwards , St John-Stevas , Younger , Nott , Biffen , Carlisle , and Maude ) who had not been in a previous Cabinet . |
| 15 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 16 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 17 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction . |
| 18 | Well Michael says you have n't been to a decent service for six weeks , till back . |
| 19 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 21 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 22 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 23 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 24 | Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more |
| 25 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 26 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 27 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 28 | Dropping anchor and manoeuvring into the quayside puts a good dinghy sailor who has n't been on a small cruiser before under considerable strain . |
| 29 | As anyone who has n't been in a media-induced coma over the last ten years knows , her trite ditties are irrelevant to the story — IM |