Example sentences of "not been the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has demonstrated impressive institutional continuity ; it has not been the subject of serious attacks by the executive . |
| 2 | When buying extended works , the collector should make sure that they have not been the subject of depredations of this nature . |
| 3 | George Braque has not been the subject of a major exhibition in Switzerland for over thirty years but Jean-Louis Prat , director of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda , is remedying the situation . |
| 4 | However , the reasons for selecting these cut-off points has not been the subject of debate . |
| 5 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 6 | However , the playgroup run by local parents had not been the success for Balbinder that we had hoped . |
| 7 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 8 | This has not been the case with the LDDC , where a very extensive regenerative programme has characterized the corporation 's activities in an area of about 5,000 acres downstream of Tower Bridge ( see Figure 3 , p. xiii ) . |
| 9 | As we saw in Part II , this has not been the case with child language , where both comprehension and production have been extensively studied , with comparisons being made between the child 's spontaneous use and understanding of particular linguistic forms . |
| 10 | As the municipal elections had shown , the political parties ( especially the parties of the left ) enjoyed the confidence and support of a large section of the population , something which had not been the case with Giraud in 1943 . |
| 11 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 12 | ‘ That has certainly not been the case in my time at this club . |
| 13 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 14 | The Left was psychologically equipped for the reality of war , which had not been the case in 1914 . |
| 15 | As had not been the case throughout her first sojourn at the Lodge , she would start from her thoughts at some unexpected sound — a movement of the timbers , a mouse stirring in the wainscot , a drenched thrush fluffing its feathers in the thatch-eaves . |
| 16 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 17 | During the meeting Brooke reportedly expressed the dismay of the UK government at these refusals , and reported on progress with unionist parties on the possibility of talks on devolution , while Collins said that the recent judgments on extradition had not been the responsibility of the Irish government . |
| 18 | That has not been the attitude of David Houghton or his group , and they are to be congratulated for that . |
| 19 | Certainly this has not been the experience in other jurisdictions . |
| 20 | Since the picnic , the young man by the river had joined her twice ; she herself , interestingly , had not been the Helen of today but her own younger self and indeed not even that — some other girl who was both alien and deeply familiar , a doppelgänger , a mirror-Helen . |
| 21 | That this is not always the case is apparent from our policy in cervical cancer screening , the bulk of which has occurred among young women , in whom the risk of dying of cervical cancer is substantially less than among older women , who have not been the focus of public screening policies for this disease . |
| 22 | This return to the primitive had not been the object of our thoughts . ’ |
| 23 | This reflection has not been the practice in the past to any great extent in Scottish Catholic schools . |
| 24 | Pierre Reverdy , a young friend and supporter of Picasso and Braque , was quick to realize the fact that true Cubism had not been the product of pictorial doctrines and theories , and also that the search for the means of expressing a new concept of form and space had made Cubism a style of almost unequalled pictorial discipline . |
| 25 | The starting point of this skill-mix review has not been the needs of the community but the need to make cuts in the service . ’ |
| 26 | But then , of course , it had not been the CIA in charge of ‘ the show ’ . |
| 27 | This status is unambiguous and has not been the source of any judicial disputation . |
| 28 | After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing . |
| 29 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |