Example sentences of "not [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 2 | If the process of evolution had not been presented in this way ( though with careful caveats ) it is very questionable whether it could have been accepted so rapidly by Victorian society . |
| 3 | The comparative merits of barium enema examination and colonoscopy in the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia have not been assessed in this study . |
| 4 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 5 | A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ? |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The breakage of mandibles of species other than rodents has not been documented in any detail . |
| 8 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 9 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 10 | The missed approach is commenced immediately on reaching decision height , if visual contact has not been made at this point . |
| 11 | But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words . |
| 12 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 13 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 14 | The job analysis is a voluntary activity at these schools and has not been seen as another way of pulling the teacher 's leash . |
| 15 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 16 | The condition , which is relatively common in continental Europe , has not been seen on this scale in the UK since the 1920s . |
| 17 | The paintings of the Thirties and Forties have not been seen in any sort of proper way and they are quite extraordinary , particularly that last group of interiors which Matisse painted between 1946 and 1948 . |
| 18 | A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 . |
| 19 | The crop will be examined to ensure that the potatoes have not been altered in any way other than in their new ability to manufacture the lectin protein . |
| 20 | Although the story of the Keynesian Revolution has been told before , it has not been tackled in this way before . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 23 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Anisminic : ‘ Although , in theory perhaps , it may be possible for Parliament to set up a tribunal which has full and autonomous powers to fix its own area of operation , that has , so far , not been done in this country . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ We have not been massacred in any game over the last six years and it wo n't start on Wednesday , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Although prepared foods are very good there is a feeling that there may be some advantage to live foods in that their vitamins , minerals and so on have not been affected by any processing . |
| 27 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 28 | Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help . |
| 29 | This report was criticised because of the small number of patients studied and because patients had not been stabilised on each insulin before acute hypoglycaemia was induced . |
| 30 | More than a balancing exercise is required and the decision has not been followed in another case before this court : see Reg. v. Parole Board , Ex parte Wilson [ 1992 ] Q.B . |