Example sentences of "not been [verb] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The comparative merits of barium enema examination and colonoscopy in the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia have not been assessed in this study . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Televising of tobacco-sponsored events : Tobacco-sponsored sport has not been televised since 1987 by the independent companies . |
| 14 | Therefore , these subfamilies have not been raised to full familial rank , until more evidence is available . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most , although certainly not all , of the remedies of 1840 were innocuous , and most had certainly not been tested in any formal way . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | In some places the books had not been touched for hundreds of years and could hardly be seen for dust . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In some areas , such as the Three Valleys water company region north of London , aquifers have not been replenished at all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Article 10 has not been incorporated into English domestic law . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This turned out to be something of a red herring as the official duty rate has not been applied since 1987 and in the meantime the temporary rate has already been 50 per cent less . |