Example sentences of "not [been] [vb pp] [prep] any [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The breakage of mandibles of species other than rodents has not been documented in any detail . |
| 5 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 6 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We have not been massacred in any game over the last six years and it wo n't start on Wednesday , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 14 | I have not been referred to any case which has directly considered the interplay between planning permission and the law of nuisance . |
| 15 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 16 | Despite the Soviet interpretation cited above , the ZOPFAN proposals still have not been defined with any precision by the ASEAN states and the mechanism by which they would limit Great Power involvement in Southeast Asia remains vague . |
| 17 | He added that , also contrary to the report , the Barkers Centre — which houses one of the group 's stores and a number of other shops and offices in London 's Kensington — ‘ has not been placed with any estate agent to sell it . ’ |
| 18 | Yet in spite of its obvious advantages it has not been received with any enthusiasm by the large corporations or indeed funding bodies of any description . |
| 19 | In a speech on July 5 President Banda had announced an intention to charge and try all detainees suspected of breaking the law , saying that a special tribunal headed by a High Court judge would be set up to hear appeals from any detainees who had not been charged with any offence . |
| 20 | The Namurian , Millstone Grit sediments have not been penetrated in any well in the area but are assumed to be present on the basis of the stratigraphic relationships deduced from seismic data . |
| 21 | If a reader in the year 2040 , let us say , needs to see large-scale mapping of the villages of the Yorkshire Dales covering the period 1995–2040 , he/she could find that that record has not been preserved in any library . |
| 22 | The concepts of ‘ good and evil ’ are associated with human life , they have not been predetermined in any sense whatsoever . |
| 23 | However , the acknowledgement of the users ' need for direct access or browsing has not been coupled with any analysis of searching behaviour at the shelves or evaluation of the approach . |
| 24 | Erm and and I know you I 'm not expecting you to comment on your colleagues , but let me quote something else that Peter Lilley said , The massive expansion of the welfare state since the war , has not been accompanied by any diminution of social problems . |
| 25 | But both overlook the important point that while there is an apparent shift away from the limiting aim of integrating the archaeological and historical data , this has not been accompanied by any reassessment of the appropriate aims and methods of studying the archaeology . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | The date of construction of the wall , which has not been established with any precision , would seem to lie in the third century . |
| 28 | Until a few years ago this test had not been performed in any species with a bizarre male form , and the theory remained a speculation , tentatively accepted by most ethologists in the absence of any plausible alternative . |
| 29 | The Attorney-General referred to the Court of Appeal under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 the questions whether proceedings upon indictment could be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay had not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution , and , if so , what degree of likelihood and seriousness of prejudice was required to justify a stay of such proceedings . |
| 30 | whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; |