Example sentences of "they have not been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 2 | This section describes those facilities available within LIFESPAN to transfer modules to offline storage automatically when they have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 3 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 4 | Will he now reassure the House that they have not been breached by article B of the agreement in what The Guardian this morning called a defence compromise ? |
| 5 | And although they have not been seen in Ireland for many years , sometimes they are heard . |
| 6 | Keith Sinclair and Gordon Lucking claim they have not been kept in touch with club affairs and that there has not been a board meeting since May last year . |
| 7 | This is not , as Young ( 1981 : 328 ) asserts , because they are ‘ well calculated to be ineffective ’ , but rather because they have not been framed with a crucial issue in mind — how far can a national state regulatory agency effect the operations of a transnational corporation , particularly when its parental state is one of the two world imperialist powers ? |
| 8 | Mr. Walker : In fairness , they have not been tripled in Wales this year , but over the past few years . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 10 | Some North American theses on Scottish geology exist , but they have not been taken into account in the present study . |
| 11 | After he has made his first claim for Landor , Pound writes two paragraphs of the sort that have provoked near-apoplexy , because they have not been taken in the spirit that Pound intended : |
| 12 | ‘ Our biggest problem with A-levels is that they have not been modified in the light of the GCSE , ’ says Brian Howseman , principal of Luton Sixth Form College . |
| 13 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 14 | The concepts of ‘ good and evil ’ are associated with human life , they have not been predetermined in any sense whatsoever . |
| 15 | Some sufferers , notably juveniles addicted to many drugs , commonly take six to eight weeks because their minds are still fogged from the drugs during the first week or two and because they have not been accustomed in their earlier lives to dealing with emotional pain except by recourse to mood-altering chemicals . |
| 16 | Although all three techniques have been used in the past , they have not been used as the prime form of monetary policy . |
| 17 | ‘ The IASC has spent almost 20 years in developing basic standards and it is unfortunate that they have not been used in practice . |
| 18 | But even though the air sinuses may be almost full of these worms , and they may also be present in the cavity of the middle ear , they have not been found in the inner ear . |
| 19 | As the civil servants are not party members , they have not been issued with security passes . |
| 20 | They have not been paid for aerial installation work which BSB had promised to subsidise . |
| 21 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 22 | The reason they have not been put into wide scale use is their cost electrical power generation from current photovoltaic devices is still 10 times more expensive than from more conventional sources . |
| 23 | This is usually because they have not been adjusted correctly , something has loosened in use or they have not been put on correctly in the first place . |
| 24 | Pile the melon balls into the centre of the mousse if they have not been set into the mixture . |
| 25 | They have not been corrected for production volume or business acquisitions and divestments . |
| 26 | They have not been included in the examples given in Figs 2.1 and 2.2 . |
| 27 | They have not been co-ordinated with HMI . |
| 28 | Districts and units have taken initiatives but often they have not been co-ordinated within a district and certainly not as a national service . |
| 29 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |