Example sentences of "we have [not/n't] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In answer to the second part of my hon. Friend 's question about population planning assistance to the former Soviet Union , although we have not been asked for such help , last week I agreed that £2 million-worth of medical aid should be spent in the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 2 | There 's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We have not been massacred in any game over the last six years and it wo n't start on Wednesday , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It is a finely balanced argument and so far we have not been persuaded by my hon. Friend 's case . |
| 6 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 7 | JUST because we have n't been seen in LINK for a while — it does n't mean its been quiet at Crediton ! |
| 8 | No , we have n't been told at all , have we ? |
| 9 | ‘ And we have n't been helped by all the bookings . |