Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another outstanding Box feature was SIMON AND LAURA ( 1956 ) a comedy about live television production starring Kay Kendall and Peter Finch whose wit and sharpness has not since been rivalled by films on similar themes . |
| 2 | This raises the possibility that the genes present today in the chromosome of E. coli have not all been derived from the same ancestral population in the distant past — as have the genes of mice — but have come from very distantly related ancestors . |
| 3 | The new government was sworn in on Feb. 27 and contained only three new members , Odd Engstrom as Deputy Prime Minister ( a post which had not hitherto been filled under Carlsson ) , Allan Larsson as Finance Minister , and Eric Asbrink who entered the Cabinet as Deputy Finance Minister . |
| 4 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 5 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 6 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 7 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 8 | It is therefore hardly surprising that Persian compositions have not only been reproduced in countless machine-made carpets in the West , but also emulated by most other rug-producing countries in the East . |
| 9 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 10 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |
| 11 | Olaf 's major followers had seemingly not only been seduced by Cnut 's cash , but also angered , according to Adam of Bremen , by the king 's tendency to apprehend their wives for sorcery . |
| 12 | The glass had not long been replaced after a fight between two customers . |
| 13 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 14 | One or both of them may not wish to cope with parenting a second time round , having not long been released from the exhaustion and limitations of childcare on their own account . |
| 15 | In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder . |
| 16 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 17 | In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session . |
| 18 | Learning to read involves no learning ability that children have not already been called upon to exercise in order to understand the language spoken at home … and from Goodman ( 1972 ) : |
| 19 | Monsieur Truffer confirmed to us that the crew must have died instantly — if they had not already been killed by the anti-aircraft fire . |
| 20 | A drawer can stop the payment of a cheque lost or stolen by immediately informing the bank , giving the cheque number and payee , providing it has not already been passed through a bank . |
| 21 | But they might have remained as also-rans if the rhynchosaurs had not already been driven into extinction |
| 22 | A much more significant straw , however , was the direct military involvement in August 1964 of United States military forces in Vietnam , which led to Australian and New Zealand military contingents being provided and might have attracted British troops as well , if they had not already been committed in Borneo and the Aden Protectorates . |
| 23 | When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module . |
| 24 | ‘ But there wo n't be any additional changes that have not already been taken into account . |
| 25 | The addition of the American mink to the British fauna has not exactly been met with jubilant welcome . |
| 26 | Initial identification of variables has not generally been discussed as a problem , presumably because linguistic elements of English which vary in a socially patterned manner are often very salient and sometimes rather general throughout the English-speaking world . |
| 27 | Aurorae have not just been mistaken for dragons . |
| 28 | These factors may account for the fact that the blackboard metaphor has not usually been used for anaphor resolvers , whose control structures are very often relatively simple , with different knowledge sources brought to bear in something like a predetermined order . |
| 29 | In a frank interview with the Mail on Sunday , Becky Blandford said that the Duke had called her a ’ filthy little scrubber ’ after she posed in lingerie for Tatler magazine … and complained that she and Jamie had not once been invited to dinner at the Palace even though they live on the estate . |
| 30 | His love affair with the Championship is such that he has not once been beaten in the final . |