Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has not been publicised elsewhere to date , and that is the one redeeming feature of this otherwise unwelcome and ill-considered arrangement . |
| 2 | There may also be losses in terms of the hopes , expectations and images of parenthood which have not been borne out by experience . |
| 3 | The possibility that the generalist advice worker would become less valued through an increase in specialists has not been borne out in practice . |
| 4 | Parliaments thrive best where they have not been created suddenly from scratch , but have evolved from a monarch 's Council of Elders . |
| 5 | The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain . |
| 6 | The challenge of providing real work for long-term mentally disordered people has not been tackled successfully in Britain . |
| 7 | I make no secret of my gratitude for being a member of a fortunate generation who have not been called on to fight in Europe . |
| 8 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 9 | The lesson has not been lost elsewhere in Europe , where the competition to launch new products has become very intense . |
| 10 | But many anonymous individuals whose traits of basic humanity had not been eradicated even by years of Nazism revealed through small acts or gestures of kindness of sympathy that they were out of step with mainstream Nazi attitudes towards the Jews . |
| 11 | But the Dallam trousseau had brought her no further orders but the brown satin dress which , since it had not been worn yet in Frizingley or anywhere else , had given no one the opportunity to enquire the name of its maker . |
| 12 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 13 | 2.5.2 within [ 5 ] working days after any such entry serve on the Architect notice ( " Defects Notice " ) specifying any respects in which they consider that the Works are not being or have not been carried out in accordance with this clause |
| 14 | Yet this state of affairs has surely not been brought about by Wigner 's intervention . |
| 15 | Faced with losses of £1,500,000 a week , chairman Nick Schele said the company would have closed by now if it had not been taken over by Ford . |
| 16 | It had not been taken seriously by MPs or press and the Black case was discredited by being placed alongside the earlier claim . |
| 17 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
| 18 | Quota transfer forms have not been issued yet to sheep farmers and , on past form , grey areas in the legislation have still to be clarified . |
| 19 | Derek can we take on the dockyards , Derek , I did indicate the situation that half an hour before speaking to congress my office has not been told officially by M O D of any change of a decision being made . |
| 20 | Molybdenum has not been worked commercially in Britain . |
| 21 | She has not been held away from home for long . ’ |
| 22 | Merymose had not been left much by life apart from his career . |
| 23 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 24 | The crucial issue of commercial relations with Libya , a major oil producer , had not been mentioned directly in Resolution 748 . |
| 25 | He also found it unacceptable that ‘ although this has not been set down in black and white , the West is clearly inclined to have the conference discuss the regime existing in Afghanistan , and the character of Soviet-Afghan relations ’ . |
| 26 | By the 1920s the Swiss jokingly complained that they needed a passport to enter some parts of their country because British skiers had taken them over , and by 1921 there were few Alpine slopes , skiable with contemporary equipment , which had not been tried out by enthusiasts . |
| 27 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 28 | But in September Ninety Ninety two of these the pins had n't been locked back into place . |
| 29 | Dizzy 's late and short-lived appearance had n't been planned entirely for effect ; the truth was that he was still fairly weak after his illness . |
| 30 | Rescrawling Tommy Titmouse on her list I was interested to see how long it had grown , and I noticed that even Mercer had n't been let in without signing . |