Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 32 | Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel . |
| 33 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 34 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 35 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 36 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 37 | WORKERS at Monktonhall Colliery , who have not been paid for seven weeks , are to receive financial assistance from Lothian Regional Council to fund an independent study into the pit 's viability . |
| 38 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 39 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 40 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 41 | Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years . |
| 44 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 45 | However , the full effect of this will not be felt for four years since the government has provided resources to cushion the transfer from rates to the community charge . |
| 46 | Instead China got an ‘ object ’ code which could not be converted for military tasks . |
| 47 | If any forester do find any trespasser wandering within his liberty … within the forest … and after hue and cry made to him to stand unto the peace , will not yield himself , but flee or resist … if the forester do kill any such offender , he shall not be impeached for this felony . |
| 48 | Earlier yesterday , the Court of Appeal refused an application by Mr Goodwin 's employers , the publishers Morgan Grampian , to revoke the order forcing him to hand over notes containing confidential financial information concerning a company , which can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 49 | The customer 's brother — who can not be named for legal reasons — came into the shop a little later and started an argument . |
| 50 | The woman , who can not be named for legal reasons , denied assault but was found guilty and given a conditional discharge . |
| 51 | While on bail , the 44-year-old machine operator — who can not be named for legal reasons — attacked his wife 's boss believing they were having an affair . |
| 52 | The child , who can not be named for legal reasons , was staying with her grandparents in south Devon . |
| 53 | A full care hearing about the girl , from Rotherwell , Leeds , — who can not be named for legal reasons — will be heard on February 23 , Leeds County Court decided . |
| 54 | He is now living apart from the children 's mother , but can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 55 | The son , who can not be named for legal reasons , enjoyed a new-found freedom while his mum lay dying , the inquest was told . |
| 56 | The man , who can not be named for legal reasons , was on police bail in Liverpool after being arrested over a burglary . |
| 57 | The boy , who can not be named for legal reasons , stole thousands of pounds of property from cars , garages , school changing rooms and sheds in the company of two other youths , both aged 14 . |
| 58 | Mr Justice Potts told the 17-year-old youth , who can not be named for legal reasons but comes from the Bury St Edmunds area , a custodial sentence was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 59 | The family can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 60 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |