Example sentences of "not been [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National success has not been primarily the result of accidents of geography , landscape and natural resources . |
| 2 | This has been the fate of the foundation of human sociability — they have been comprehensively repressed , because if they had not been then the conflict between man 's instinctual drives and his social existence would have been even more painful and even more disruptive than it is . |
| 3 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 4 | We were we had n't been home a couple of two or three weeks then the big war started , nineteen fourteen . |
| 5 | ‘ Will you excuse me , Maggie , ’ he said , wetness in his eyes that had n't been there a moment ago . |
| 6 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |