Example sentences of "not [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 2 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 3 | British farmers received no warnings and use of the fungicides has not been cut in Britain . |
| 4 | Why has this extraordinary assemblage not been secured by Italy ? |
| 5 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and regret to advise that you have not been selected for interview . |
| 6 | In five of these seven , the stones were also found by ultrasonagraphy but in two , recurrences were identified by oral cholecystectography , which had not been detected by echography . |
| 7 | Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night . |
| 8 | The statutory negligence approach has not been adopted in England and this is probably a good thing . |
| 9 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 10 | Prost has to finish four points ahead of Lauda to be champion ( having more victories ; it would have been three if Monaco had not been curtailed by rain , but then , if rain had not fallen , Prost would not have won in Monaco ) . |
| 11 | Perelandra shows that even on the mythopoeic level this most difficult of doctrines had not been absorbed by Lewis . |
| 12 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 13 | Child benefit , the principal family benefit , has not been increased in line with pensions and other benefits . |
| 14 | Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default . |
| 15 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 16 | Like all Jerome Russell products , Spray-in-Highlights have not been tested on animals . |
| 17 | Suitable for all hair types this range has not been tested on animals , is totally organic and biodegradable . |
| 18 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 19 | At the time of writing these radical provisions of the 1989 Act have not been tested by experience , but this is unlikely to remain the case for long . |
| 20 | It would be unthinking , because the acceptance has not been tested in argument . |
| 21 | Officially , 550 species have been formally identified as endangered but an additional 3,600 threatened species have not been listed despite evidence that they required protection . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The Chinese room had so far not been touched by Sara or her decorators . |
| 24 | Furthermore , chimaeras have not been obtained from embryos injected before the middle of the 9th day of gestation , presumably because younger embryos are physically too small to be successfully penetrated , or to tolerate penetration . |
| 25 | Intelligence sources in West Germany say that efforts to stop the current wave of IRA attacks have not been hampered by rivalries and that different organisations have been co-operating well together . |
| 26 | The alleyways were scored with deep trenches down which the water ran when it rained ; or would have run had its passage not been blocked by heaps of refuse , dung and animal guts , behind which the water collected in stagnant pools , above which mosquitoes hung in a cloud . |
| 27 | ‘ ( a ) when the whole of the price has not been paid or tendered ; ( b ) when a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument has been received as conditional payment , and the condition on which it was received has not been fulfilled by reason of the dishonour of the instrument or otherwise . ’ |
| 28 | Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost . |
| 29 | Check that roots of wallflowers have not been loosened by wind and refirm them if necessary . |
| 30 | In essence the principles of pastoral care for children have not been extended to adults . |