Example sentences of "not been " in BNC.
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1 | They have not been charged or tried and may be imprisoned because of their nationality , in retaliation for the Ugandan authorities alleged support of the armed opposition group , the Rwandese Patriotic Front . |
2 | She has not been seen since . |
3 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
4 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
5 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
6 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
7 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
8 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
9 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
10 | The purpose of detailing the relationship between the Irish constitution and the papal teaching of the period has not been to ridicule seemingly outdated church — state dispositions . |
11 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
12 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
13 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
14 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
15 | Had not been ready to feel ? ) |
16 | And Nicholson 's have not been slow to realise the commercial potential of this classic heritage ; Langford & Williams ' design brief from them was to restore what could be restored and to reinstate in sympathy with the building where necessary . |
17 | Importing the ingredients through wholesalers has not been a problem . |
18 | After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy . |
19 | The difference between most ARC members and professional chefs , male or female , is that the former have not been through ‘ the system ’ . |
20 | He had not been impaled , but the spike had been driven far upwards from near his throat before his body had slumped clear . |
21 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
22 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
23 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
24 | ‘ It sounds as though life 's not been too easy for you since then . ’ |
25 | I worried all night , lest the listing in the local paper and in the Order of St John country handbook had not been enough . |
26 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
27 | Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits . |
28 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
29 | Pilots who are frightened or apprehensive about stalling have not been properly trained and could be a risk to themselves and their passengers if they obtain their licence without overcoming their problem . |
30 | If you have not been vaccinated already , see your doctor now and ask him to check whether you are immune to German Measles . |