Example sentences of "not been [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.

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1 The ancient civilizations were firm believers in a form of hypnosis ( although the word itself had not been coined at that time , only coming into existence in the early nineteenth century : it derives from the Greek hypnos , meaning sleep ) .
2 Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail .
3 I think to do that erm to chairman , to define the Greater York area then to ten miles that would of course require a consistent calculation of the housing need requirement both the local need element and the hundred percent migration element which arises within that ten mile er area , to be consistent with erm the rest of the policy , and of course that calculation erm that consistent calculation er has not been done for that area .
4 For some great conductors it was — Karajan , like everyone else , had a good line in Knappertsbusch stories — but Karajan 's repertory and reputation have not been built on that premiss .
5 oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long
6 On Nov. 27 the Supreme Court had issued a ruling declaring all the decisions of the National Assembly since Sept. 2 null and void , as a quorum of members had not been achieved on that date .
7 He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime .
8 China and the USA narrowly averted a major trade war when a comprehensive trade agreement was signed on Oct. 10 ; if the agreement had not been signed on that day the USA , under Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act , would automatically have imposed punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent of value on Chinese-made imports currently worth a total of US$3,900 million .
9 In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years .
10 The money has not been used for that purpose .
11 After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance .
12 If the machine has not been delivered by that date , the buyer can treat the failure to deliver as a breach of a condition and he can cancel the contract as time for delivery is usually construed as being a condition ; see Hartley v Hyams [ 1920 ] .
13 One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason .
14 Unfortunately , it had not been left at that .
15 I understand that the Government have not been negotiating for that .
16 This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time .
17 But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay .
18 Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that
19 ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date .
20 As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat .
21 No , she had n't been born like that .
22 Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an
23 ‘ It was the rainy season and the runway had n't been concreted at that time , ’ she explained .
24 And er I can er no electricity had n't been put in that house because the one we moved into at , that had got electricity in it then .
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