Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 2 | Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century . |
| 3 | The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money . |
| 4 | ‘ My own department has not been standing still . |
| 5 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 6 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 7 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 8 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 9 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 10 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 11 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 12 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 13 | I would have fled if the Earl 's retainers had not been standing right behind me . |
| 14 | The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over . |
| 15 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 16 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 17 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 18 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've not been putting any in . ’ |
| 21 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 22 | ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 24 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 25 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 26 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 27 | ‘ I had n't been feeling terrific ’ , he went on , ‘ since I got into the hospital . |
| 28 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
| 29 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 30 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |