Example sentences of "have not [been] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 5 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 7 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | unless he has n't been near a phone and could n't ring her . |
| 11 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 14 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 15 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 16 | They should remember that it would all have ended seven matches earlier if it had not been for an 88th-minute equaliser against Bashley on September 16 . |
| 17 | If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident . |
| 18 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 19 | As she changed the water in her washing-up bowl , the feeling of a pattern more securely possessed her , the feeling of events happening and being linked , the feeling that her wakeful nights and her edginess over her lost child had not been without an outcome . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The scuffle at the Club Des Esseintes aside , she had not been in a fight since elementary school . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In one recent group one woman had not been in a lift for twenty years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years . |
| 27 | They 've not been in a flat |
| 28 | You 've not been near a phonebox or a letterbox . |
| 29 | Crowds of people , including many who had n't been to a church for years , came to hear him . |
| 30 | You said you had n't been to a gym in ages . |