Example sentences of "have not [been] [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 2 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 3 | The strategic use of background material which has not been sent to any other media and an appropriate idea or two can achieve an in-depth feature which would not otherwise have been forthcoming . |
| 4 | This theme of administration in the landscape has not been studied to any great extent , and yet we have already seen that definition of estates is of critical importance in understanding the local landscape . |
| 5 | Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help . |
| 6 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind the magnitude of soil erosion which has occurred in sensitive areas including the Dust Bowl , parts of China and of Africa it is surprising that more attention has not been directed to this aspect of the human impact . |
| 8 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 9 | Thus began the Curse of the Bambino , which has not been lifted to this day . |
| 10 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 11 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 12 | However , the fact that these works had not been shown to any Russian museum curators caused considerable trouble for the organisers . |
| 13 | ‘ Not in our set , at all events — for we 've not been asked to any ! ’ |
| 14 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 15 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 16 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 17 | I have not been referred to any case which has directly considered the interplay between planning permission and the law of nuisance . |
| 18 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 19 | The matter of the paper is to present those areas of AI ( some would say that is too parochial and what I shall put forward belongs more generally to Computer Science ) where a mechanical analogue of consciousness might be sought in the future , and to argue that they are not the obvious places , and have not been subjected to much philosophical investigation . |
| 20 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 21 | You see if you if you have n't been introduced to those when you 're young . |