Example sentences of "not been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack .
2	However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control .
3	‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long .
4	Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’
8	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 .
9	But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination .
10	I would have fled if the Earl 's retainers had not been standing right behind me .
11	The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over .
12	Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century .
13	The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money .
14	‘ My own department has not been standing still .

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