Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] been [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , if the decree absolute of divorce has not been pronounced the parties are still husband and wife ( Fender v St John-Mildmay [ 1938 ] AC 1 ) ; and we have seen that transfers between them ( provided they are both domiciled in the UK ) are exempt from a charge to inheritance tax ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) even if they are living apart . |
| 2 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 3 | It will seem strange to them that the House has not been given the opportunity to hear a statement on the matter , or to debate it . |
| 4 | But the GMC has not been given the power to set out which treatments are ‘ scientifically validated ’ and therefore permissible and those that are not and therefore forbidden . |
| 5 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 6 | Sutton Hall said he would have to pay a carriage fee of £68 ; his cheque was cashed last August , but he still has n't been sent the units . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 's a different story this time around and he has n't been doing the business for us . |
| 8 | Tony has n't been paying the bills . |
| 9 | He says the money has n't been following the patient . |
| 10 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 11 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 12 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 13 | He had not been expecting the change in subject . |
| 14 | The four tenants had actually been paying their rent , but the landlord had not been using the money to pay off his mortgage . |
| 15 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 16 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 17 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 18 | He wished his first instinct had not been to conceal the traces of Tessa 's existence , but it had been . |
| 19 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |
| 20 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 21 | Despite management optimism , the factory had not been making the goods to meet the profits required , said Mr Laird . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 23 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 24 | In other words , he had not been attending the kirk . |
| 25 | If the senatorial rules had not been used the effect would of course have been essentially the same . |
| 26 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 27 | I was surprised spectators had n't been given the opportunity to assess their merits . |
| 28 | Mr Healey said that Labour , always having had a majority of men , would have won every election since 1922 if women had n't been given the vote . |
| 29 | One of the speakers , Dr Margaret Collinson , wrote to Roy on 17 September to the effect that she had n't been told the venue , date or time of her paper . |
| 30 | He started , sweating guiltily : he had n't been checking the sky . |