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

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1 I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see .
2 When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes .
3 This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham .
4 Rain had not been thinking of doing that .
5 I know but you 've not been thinking of me .
6 Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died .
7 It is surprising , therefore , that greater use has not been made of the childhood supplement , which was published in 1988 .
8 Remember to keep rhubarb that has not been stripped of its poisonous leaves well away from similar-looking cabbage or spinach ; remove green parts and sprouting eyes from your potatoes .
9 Third World communities who remain free of our degenerative diseases have been found to live on diets which contain a much higher percentage of carbohydrate than ours — carbohydrate obtained from cereals which have not been stripped of their dietary fibre , fibre-rich vegetables ( potatoes and other root vegetables ) , legumes and fruits .
10 The Full Federal Court allowed the appeal on the ground that there had been no breach of natural justice as the respondents had been given a hearing and , in the opinion of one Judge , had not been deprived of any present benefit or advantage .
11 The Privy Council rejected the argument that there was not theft because the companies had not been deprived of anything .
12 He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany .
13 By then Pastor Tokes had disappeared and has not been heard of since .
14 Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of .
15 His particular work was to be a pioneer missionary — a planter of churches where ‘ Christ has not been heard of ’ .
16 Care should be taken when items are claimed to be damaged ‘ beyond economic repair ’ particularly if the confirmation is received from a firm which has not been heard of previously .
17 Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year .
18 It was clearly foreseen , though not stated , that these would be drawn mainly from the workhouses , either because the relatives of the dead could not pay for interment , or because they had not been notified of death .
19 The one disappointing feature was that the legal profession had not been notified of this event despite the Bar 's recorded interest .
20 If you have applied but , as yet , have not been advised of the outcome , please contact the Council to obtain information on the latest position .
21 In contrast with what has been reported for cervical cancer patients , the lifetime number of sexual partners has not been found of significant , independent importance in the few case-control studies of anal cancer published so far .
22 The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again .
23 86 L.G.R. 660 , the Court of Appeal upheld the grant of an interlocutory injunction restraining a breach of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , notwithstanding an alleged defence invoked by the defendant which had not been disposed of .
24 Although the cage remained in 1823 , Bond reported ‘ to the credit of the sex it has not been used of late years ’ .
25 I have not been informed of this . ’
26 They found that Darwin W/T station had not been informed of their flight in time to warn Koepang W/T station to be on the air the following morning .
27 NTR , but DL made the point that , welcome though this project is , he had not been informed of it until quite late in the planning stage .
28 He said that he had not been informed of the dissolution of the National Assembly on Jan. 4 .
29 The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project .
30 Yet when , after Poindexter 's first day of testimony , the story-line reached its conclusion — no , the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras — viewers fell away .
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