Example sentences of "it [verb] not [adv] been " in BNC.

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1 There are plenty of ‘ success stories ’ where governments have not intervened , or where it has not even been acknowledged that farmers and pastoralists have quietly got on with the business of conservation for themselves , and frequently provided sustainable surpluses for the market as well .
2 It has not just been a question of choosing between state action and individual responsibility , but rather of finding the means to link the two effectively .
3 Evaluation of its performance is hazardous because it has not generally been subject to commercial practices and norms [ Pryke , 1981 ] .
4 The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is .
5 However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) .
6 In the history of Western culture , it has not simply been a case of nature swallowing supernature .
7 Although the report was due in 1987 , it has not yet been presented .
8 It is not an easy business to identify the actual ancestor of the land-going organisms , and perhaps it has not yet been found .
9 This solution induces vertigo if one thinks in terms of a self-contained realm of observation and inference ; does it mean that the most you can say of Einstein 's physics is that it has not yet been refuted , which can be said equally of ‘ Unicorns exist ’ ?
10 Nevertheless , it has not yet been shown that in these circumstances charcoal reduces the need for an antidote .
11 Achieving a Balance has not failed — it has not yet been tried .
12 There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] .
13 Thus the value of one uninitialised variable may be replaced by that of another , provided it has not yet been read and the value of the second variable is used nowhere else .
14 Although this valley is only four hours away from London , it has not yet been discovered by tourists and artists .
15 However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being .
16 Is not it also true that , next year , its further development will be restricted to three more blocks , whereas there are 170 tower blocks in Glasgow in which it has not yet been developed ?
17 This could be extended later to other agencies in the criminal justice system , but it has not yet been so extended .
18 They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable .
19 It has not yet been well defined , whether a similar approach is justified for bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy .
20 It has not yet been taken out in the statutory town development plan .
21 Hemisphere imbalance may seem to explain schizophrenic symptoms , but like a good deal of the information on the development of schizophrenia , it has not yet been backed up by a convincing aetiological model .
22 However , it has not yet been established that global warming is due to excessive combustion of fossil fuels .
23 May help especially if it has not already been given directly after the birth .
24 We pay £5 for every letter we publish , provided it has not already been accepted or published elsewhere , plus a year 's subscription to the magazine for a Star Letter .
25 We pay £5 for every letter we publish , provided it has not already been accepted or published elsewhere , plus a year 's subscription to the magazine for a Star Letter .
26 We pay £5 for every letter we publish , provided it has not already been accepted or published elsewhere , plus a year 's subscription to the magazine for a Star Letter .
27 We pay £5 for every letter we publish , provided it has not already been accepted or published elsewhere , plus a year 's subscription to the magazine for a Star Letter .
28 We pay £5 for every letter we publish , provided it has not already been accepted or published elsewhere , plus a year 's subscription to the magazine for a Star Letter .
29 We pay £5 for every letter we publish , provided it has not already been accepted or published elsewhere , plus a year 's subscription to the magazine for a Star Letter .
30 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 .
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