Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Science Citation Index also indicates that the outside world has not been developing ideas form German scientists : 2 per cent of citations in 1975 were for German papers compared with 4 per cent for the UK and 3 per cent from Japan . |
| 2 | Lucker has not been taking corners well . |
| 3 | The findings pointed to a lack of training for social services staff and suggested senior SSD managers had not been providing workers or users with information about the changes . |
| 4 | And then … as if people had not been hearing things since Noah hit his thumb with a hammer , SOUND arrived . |
| 5 | She knew Penny had not been raiding apples , but she had n't convinced Farmer Bolsover of it . |
| 6 | There was a movement within the Trees , the sudden shifting of green and gold and russet , so that Floy knew the dusk had not been playing tricks after all . |
| 7 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 8 | He said in a quiet and ominous voice , ‘ You 've not been putting ideas in their heads , I do hope ! ’ |
| 9 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 10 | Frying-pan in hand , she is saying she has nothing for us , she had n't been expecting customers ; at this time of year there are visitors only at weekends . |
| 11 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 12 | Perhaps motivated by such heady topics , the Scottish Survivors have not been taking matters that light-heartedly . |
| 13 | Well I tell you why I have n't been buying currants lately cos they 've been so blooming expensive ! |
| 14 | ‘ While our batting has been good , the bowling has been steady rather than dynamic , which is why we have n't been bowling sides out a second time , ’ reasons Fraser . |
| 15 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |