Example sentences of "not been [verb] [prep] [adj] [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 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 Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan .
4 The comparative merits of barium enema examination and colonoscopy in the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia have not been assessed in this study .
5 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 .
6 The offence was alleged to have been committed in Perth on 4 February of last year but the defence counsel , Graham Bell , QC , pointed out that the complaint had not been served until 14 February this year .
7 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong .
11 Although this theory has not been tested in other forms of autonomic neuropathy , we have assumed that the same holds true in cases where constipation was associated to a degree of autonomic neuropathy .
12 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 ?
13 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 ) .
14 It claims the annual American-South Korean military exercises , known as Team Spirit , are a threat to the North ; that the Americans still have nuclear weapons in South Korea ; and that the South has not been inspected for nuclear bases .
15 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 .
16 Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other .
17 Legal and quasi-legal moves are made when things have gone wrong , where expectations have not been fulfilled on both sides , and often where students have not played the compliant role expected of them .
18 The breakage of mandibles of species other than rodents has not been documented in any detail .
19 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 .
20 Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day .
21 It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) .
22 The missed approach is commenced immediately on reaching decision height , if visual contact has not been made at this point .
23 The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time .
24 ‘ If a judgment requires , before it can be made , the existence of some facts then , although the evaluation of those facts is for the Secretary of State alone , the court must inquire whether those facts exist , and have been taken into account , whether the judgment has been made upon a proper self-direction as to those facts , whether the judgment has not been made upon other facts which ought not to have been taken into account .
25 Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits .
26 * Ben Macam and rare liches has not been replaced with tougher rye-grass .
27 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 .
28 In times past , Shiptonthorpe has not been lacking in interesting characters .
29 The strange occurrence at Ingrow Tunnel has not been explained by logical reasons and so must be regarded as , maybe , a paranormal phenomenon .
30 If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years .
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