Example sentences of "not [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " 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 | This has not been developed into such a standard technique but has been used to investigate both laminar and turbulent flows . |
| 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 | They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of . |
| 7 | When it attempted to go-ahead with the purchase , Friends of the Earth launched a legal challenge , claiming that due notice had not been served on some of the owners . |
| 8 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most , although certainly not all , of the remedies of 1840 were innocuous , and most had certainly not been tested in any formal way . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | This right of access to the Court has not been exercised by many third States , but could failure to deposit a non-party declaration with the Registrar of the Court be taken as non-acceptance of the right so that it could no longer be claimed ? |
| 14 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 15 | In some areas , such as the Three Valleys water company region north of London , aquifers have not been replenished at all . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The breakage of mandibles of species other than rodents has not been documented in any detail . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The missed approach is commenced immediately on reaching decision height , if visual contact has not been made at this point . |
| 22 | As Arendt has pointed out , ‘ In all these cases , legitimacy derives from something outside the range of human deeds ; it is either not man-made at all … or has at least not been made by those who happen to be in power . ’ |
| 23 | What had not been realised by all concerned was the fearful advance in the scientific methods of waging war — no longer was war a man to man affair — men could be destroyed in hundreds from a distance and that ability was not confined to one side alone . |
| 24 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 25 | But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words . |
| 26 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 27 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 28 | When you remove the old guttering , even if you find that the top part of the fascia board has not been painted at all , paint it now — after repairing any damage , including any caused by removing the guttering . |
| 29 | Winners Dog Male winner of each class who has not been beaten in any other class , competes for Winners Dog . |
| 30 | Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail . |