Example sentences of "not been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I returned to London and the Prime Minister made clear what I had always known , that , had he not been stricken down , he would have made a speech on the Saturday at Blackpool saying that he was going on . |
| 2 | But none of these principles could have been exploited or pursued in the ways in which they were had there not been tacit approval and support on the part of the state . |
| 3 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 4 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 5 | Trish 's own career has not been plain sailing . |
| 6 | Even at Cambridge this had not been plain sailing , as the remarks attributed to Christopher Kicks make clear : |
| 7 | Since the proposal was published in November 1990 , there has not been sufficient time to assess the reactions of the earth science departments funded by NERC to it . |
| 8 | This is because there has not been sufficient time to build up goodwill connected with the name and , hence , there is little danger that the public will be confused . |
| 9 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 10 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 11 | It could not have done so had there not been considerable lack of confidence in these other analgesics and the 80 or so non-steroidal anti-inflammatories use to treat arthritis . |
| 12 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |