Example sentences of "[pron] have not been [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes I wish I had n't been born a Catholic , Joe . |
| 2 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 4 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 5 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |
| 6 | A smaller table was beside the desk with a high-backed typewriter , the sign of a junior executive who has not been allocated a personal secretary and must write his own memoranda . |
| 7 | One of the speakers , Dr Margaret Collinson , wrote to Roy on 17 September to the effect that she had n't been told the venue , date or time of her paper . |
| 8 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 9 | In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity , reported also by others . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you have n't been given the opportunity for sufficient consideration . |
| 11 | We had to buy one ; it certainly was n't given and do n't forget we had n't been paid a salary while travelling . |
| 12 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 13 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 14 | ‘ I am sad we have not been afforded the same welcome given to the Beirut hostages , ’ he told a deeply moved audience at the AGM last month . |
| 15 | The problem is compounded by the fact that we have not been told the prices realised by the sale of the NBC 's subsidiary companies . |
| 16 | But there are grounds for scepticism : there has not been produced a clear coherent overall plan which places significant values , skills and , characteristics at the forefront of the curriculum . |
| 17 | Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by |
| 18 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 19 | The drivers sought a declaration that the ban was invalid arguing , inter alia , that the ban was in breach of natural justice , since they had not been given an opportunity to make representations before the ban was imposed . |
| 20 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 21 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 22 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 23 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |
| 24 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 25 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 26 | Some have worked at Bentley pianos for forty years , but they have n't been offered a penny in redundancy pay . |
| 27 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 28 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 29 | However this is a claim made solely on the evaluation of the IBM team and it has n't been given a stamp from the National Computer Security Centre . |
| 30 | No this is just a pr it 's a private , it 's not an ex-rental one , i it really is in mint , it has n't been used a lot . |