Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 2 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 3 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 4 | The line had not been run a week before all Europeans connected with it were discharged , and the whole thing was controlled by the Chinese , who had carefully watched the progress of the work , and had stored up a vast mass of data for future use . |
| 5 | The talks were regarded as significant given that on previous visits to the United States , the Dalai Lama had not been granted a meeting with the President . |
| 6 | The government on March 14 , 1990 , reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on a second structural adjustment programme ; Congo 's first such programme , initiated in 1985 [ see p. 34406 ] , had not been considered a success . |
| 7 | In the particular case in question , the complainant 's father had not been offered a bed by the health authority , although he was assessed as needing nursing care . |
| 8 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 9 | During that pause I realized that Mala had not been offered a seat , nor any food or drink . |
| 10 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |
| 11 | Where a university subject of the candidate 's choice has not been allocated a quota award , it may be possible for the Head of Department to nominate the candidate for an appeals award . |
| 12 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 13 | Perhaps sometime I 'll be able to devise a way round my official non-existence and apply for a gun myself , though even then , all things considered , I might not be granted a licence . |
| 14 | On proximal joints the dorsal arm spines from one side of the arm form a continuous series with those from the other , but this can not be called a fan in the sense used in other genera of the Ophiacanthidae . |
| 15 | This argument can be criticized on the grounds that a state bureaucracy can not be called a class . |
| 16 | Similarly , an excess of payments over receipts can not be called a loss because apart from anything else the payments might include the acquisition of assets . |
| 17 | The mummified corpses , which Sadat decreed should not be made a spectacle of , include those of Seti I , Segnere III and Ramses II . |
| 18 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 19 | The one can not be made a substitute for the other ; indeed , any failure in right conduct inevitably brings about a downfall in right beliefs . |
| 20 | That the archbishop of the prestigious see of Milan , graced by St Ambrose and St Charles Borromeo , should not be made a cardinal looked like a deliberate snub . |
| 21 | There are cases not in any way in doubt on this appeal which establish the general proposition that a foetus enjoys , while still a foetus , no independent legal personality — a foetus can not , while a foetus , sue and can not be made a ward of court : see Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 22 | Since that Act came into force , a child who is the subject of a care order , as W. was and is , can not be made a ward of court : see section 100(2) ( c ) of that Act . |
| 23 | W. , being in the care of the local authority , can not be made a ward of court : see section 100(2) of , and paragraph 15 of Schedule 14 to , the Children Act 1989 . |
| 24 | If the body is a small one , the younger hunters may not be given a share . |
| 25 | Illiterate people can not be given a questionnaire , though they may , of course , be interviewed . |
| 26 | emphasized that persons should not be given a right to attend eg. the Press , who could state that they were very interested in embalming . |
| 27 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 28 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 29 | I should make it clear that my construction did not depend upon the children of the staff taking up surplus places in the sense that if there were sufficient fee paying pupils , the staff 's children would not be given a place . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ he smiled apologetically , ‘ I 'm afraid you would not be given a hearing . ’ |