Example sentences of "not been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 2 | The strange occurrence at Ingrow Tunnel has not been explained by logical reasons and so must be regarded as , maybe , a paranormal phenomenon . |
| 3 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 4 | These analyses have not been confirmed by modern methods . |
| 5 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 6 | The resistance of Ulster had not been created by British Unionists and could hardly be said to depend on them , but the knowledge of support was certainly useful to Carson and Craig in giving their plans for rebellion an official look . |
| 7 | There at least the ideological differences have not been obfuscated by national divisions . |
| 8 | This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life . |
| 9 | Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The EC Communications and Telecommunications Ministers agreed on Dec. 8 , 1989 , on a programme to deregulate and liberalize the remaining areas of the EC market in telecommunications which had not been covered by earlier agreements ( see p. 36494 ) , voting to deregulate value-added telephone services by April 1 , 1990 ( with transitional concessions to Spain , Portugal and Greece ) , and to extend the ruling to packet-switching and circuit-switching services by the start of 1993 . |
| 12 | ( Talks in 1973 which produced the short-lived Sunningdale agreement had not been attended by hard-line unionists — see pp. 26301-04 . ) |
| 13 | The ‘ real local enthusiasm ’ has not been generated by this organisation : why was there no mention of the petition prepared by the STPS and signed by four of the five communities surrounding Laganas Bay , the Zakynthos hoteliers ' association , and the local association of communities ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the writer 's experience it will be sufficient to lodge with the application : ( i ) an explanation as to why the application has not been signed by both proprietors ( eg the parties are separated and the husband refuses to reply ) ; ( ii ) a copy of the notice of severance ; and ( iii ) a certificate of posting of the notice and confirmation of delivery . |
| 16 | This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people . |
| 17 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
| 18 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 19 | Self-belief has been a problem this season and has not been helped by narrow defeats against Wasps ( 11–7 ) , Saracens ( 13–12 ) and London Irish ( 12–9 ) and a 9–9 draw with Rugby . |
| 20 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 21 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 22 | But their image has not been helped by some leaving damaged and defaced properties . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The European Council notes that the progress made in the completion of the internal market has not been accompanied by comparable progress in the field of social policy . |
| 26 | Piero della Francesca has not been forgotten by Milanese publishers in the year of the five hundredth anniversary of his death . |
| 27 | One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done . |
| 28 | The internal politics of the profession in a recession economy have not been resolved by this scheme ( Smith and Thomas 1978 ) but it illustrates the irrecon-cilable tensions between individual economic advancement , collegiate unity and community/client interest , tensions which were recognised by our respondents . |
| 29 | Research papers from Daresbury have not been quoted by other physicists as important reference material . |
| 30 | If the machine has not been delivered by that date , the buyer can treat the failure to deliver as a breach of a condition and he can cancel the contract as time for delivery is usually construed as being a condition ; see Hartley v Hyams [ 1920 ] . |