Example sentences of "not been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the petition has not been served within sufficient time or at all , the petition creditor can apply for an adjournment but must give the reason why the petition has not been served ( r 6.28 ) .
2 In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’
3 Although the European Convention on Human Rights has not been incorporated into domestic law in the United Kingdom and is not enforceable via legal sanctions against signatories , the government was under political pressure following Campbell and Cosans to change the law .
4 While I am pleased to report that this particular source has not been replaced with high-quality material , suppliers of this and other ‘ green ’ materials should be warned that I am quite prepared to give them the widest publicity they 've ever had if they try fobbing gardeners off with sub-standard goods .
5 He said that his television broadcast had not been written under physical pressure but " under the constraints of the situation " .
6 It is something which seems such an ordinary thing to do , and yet the effect of it is something which has not been seen in pictorial art since Giotto .
7 Most people have not been indoctrinated into religious faith but into a questioning or ignoring of religion as basically superseded if not actually false .
8 Although carcinoid tumours have not been observed during long term omeprazole treatment , the possibility thatlong term pronounced hypergastrinaemia may increase the risk of tumour formation can not be excluded .
9 The complaint , if valid , would suggest the existence of a constitutional practice or convention , which has certainly not been observed with complete fidelity in the past .
10 By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing .
11 Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious .
12 Carboxyhaemoglobin concentrations have not been studied in direct relation to gastric secretion in man but this agent may cause relative anoxia of the cell ; both anoxia and the thiocyanate ion ( another cigarette product ) have been shown to prevent the transformation by histamine of a resting parietal cell to its active acid secreting state .
13 Despite the fact that carnitine has not been studied in coeliac disease patients in other geographical areas and dietary carnitine was not studied in our population , it seems that this population does not have nutritional carnitine deficiency .
14 However , unlike the GHQ , it has not been validated against psychiatric opinion .
15 Had the two junctions not been converted to single track it would be impossible for two trains to collide on them , BR 's then director of operations , Ivor Warburton , agreed .
16 This success has not been achieved without close attention to methodology .
17 By the end of the text the reader feels sympathetic towards Lady Macbeth because she realises that no good will emerge where ambition had not been achieved by good fortune and ‘ borrowed robes ’ all too often do n't fit .
18 If on the other hand the board does not fully and cleanly develop after a couple of minutes , then the board has not been exposed to UV light for long enough .
19 When enforcement was sought in Germany , the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf , holding itself required to examine the matter for itself under Article 27(2) of the Brussels Convention , held that service had not been effected in sufficient time to allow the defendant to make a defence .
20 It must also be understood that the national armed forces have not been designed with civil unrest in mind , and that their employment in civil disturbance has been exceptional .
21 Nevertheless there are , in both units , large cohorts of patients with HIV infection with mildly abnormal liver function tests who have not been subjected to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography .
22 Situated as it is approximately one mile from the Hull/ York road , it has grown gradually , and yet not been subjected to heavy traffic apart from distribution and collection purposes .
23 This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people .
24 It has not been released for independent investigation or for investigation by BR experts , so it is not part of the evidence that is being considered at the BR internal inquiry now under way .
25 An undoubted improvement in the legal position of many occupiers , as a consequence of Street v Mountford , has not been translated into socio-economic reality .
26 It is heartening to see that the non-enrollers have not been put off future participation , especially when it seems many have had difficulties arising from personal circumstances .
27 The reason they have not been put into wide scale use is their cost electrical power generation from current photovoltaic devices is still 10 times more expensive than from more conventional sources .
28 Choice has not been considered in premium rate services .
29 The early Anglo-Saxon period is unspectacular and , except for the rare and fabulous discoveries such as the ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) has not been brought to popular attention .
30 Turbine engines had not been introduced into regular airline use when I joined the Branch ; also one 's practical application of aerodynamics had to be radically modified to cope with the characteristics of high speed flight with swept wings and all the associated developments that went with this revolution in flying .
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