Example sentences of "[conj] have [not/n't] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 2 | Section 11 permits the revocation of an authorisation if , inter alia , it appears that any of the criteria specified in Schedule 3 is not or has not been fulfilled by the institution concerned . |
| 3 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 4 | Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve . |
| 5 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 6 | So an ‘ organically ’ grown carrot is one that has not been sprayed with synthetic pesticides — despite the fact that these are ‘ organic ’ chemicals . |
| 7 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Remember to keep rhubarb that has not been stripped of its poisonous leaves well away from similar-looking cabbage or spinach ; remove green parts and sprouting eyes from your potatoes . |
| 11 | Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses . |
| 12 | He had ten varieties of carrot in the ground when I visited , including a purple carrot that has not been grown since the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | The stunts gave Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em a visual comedy that has not been seen on television before or since . |
| 14 | The real danger today is not of being seen to condone precipitate separatism but , through the impotence of our response so far , of being seen to condone brutal and barbaric behaviour of a kind that has not been seen in Europe since the 1940s . |
| 15 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 16 | For his part , Gould has voiced a degree of scepticism about Europe that has not been heard from a Labour frontbencher for many a long year , and has rescued ‘ devaluation ’ from the party 's dictionary of forbidden words . |
| 17 | Something that has not been illustrated in Collectair in the past is the printed and illustrated match-slip ( or book-matches ) . |
| 18 | This , however , is a rule that has not been enforced since the 1920s . |
| 19 | The rhythm is responding to an external influence that has not been controlled in the experimental protocol . |
| 20 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 21 | 18 women have been put in administrative detention for 6 months without trial a measure that has not been used against women since 1979 . |
| 22 | If you have a complaint about British Rail services that has not been dealt with to your satisfaction , your local Transport Users ' Consultative Committee , set up by Parliament , will help . |
| 23 | So far I have not been able to come up with any musical symbol that has not been catered for , whether arranging for full orchestra , brass-band or choir — with the single exception of guitar chord symbols . |
| 24 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 25 | There is scarcely an industry that has n't been affected by it ; from manufacturing through to publishing . |
| 26 | Coloured , bleached , stonewashed , there 's little that has n't been done to denim . |
| 27 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 28 | Alliance claims TextMachine can handle text that has n't been stripped of word processor formatting codes and comes with X-Windows and character-based user interfaces . |
| 29 | It means a purchase that has n't been planned in advance . |
| 30 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |