Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is part of that grass cutting probably due to the fact that our pavements are also covered in grass , some of them as much as two foot on either side , and you 've got two foot down the middle , going like that , where the grass is growing and has not been cut back since nineteen seventy four . |
| 2 | They 've not been tested solely on that , but it 's on the question . |
| 3 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 4 | He had not been seen much in recent years , and Peggy Pine — who was Mother Francis 's line of communication with the outer world — said that he was now in a wheelchair as a result of a stroke . |
| 5 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 6 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 7 | Such extensive managerial powers had not been built in to any of the LEA pilot schemes of financial delegation in existence before 1988 although schools ' experiences had often entailed a change in managerial approach ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 8 | Despite the Gulf War dealing a major blow to the Japanese hotel industry , new hotel construction has not been affected much by short-term influence . |
| 9 | At present about 85% of foreign aid is earmarked by Congress for specific purposes in selected countries : unlucky countries that have not been singled out for earmarked money are vulnerable to savage cuts . |
| 10 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 11 | In the words of the Kingman Report , ‘ their implications have not been followed through with sufficient rigour or in detail . ’ |
| 12 | Elected as President in 1987 amid controversy over his war record while serving in the German Army , Waldheim had not been received officially by any Western country , and the World Jewish Congress criticized Kohl for his " shocking lack of moral sensitivity " in breaching this de facto Western diplomatic boycott . |
| 13 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 14 | The sources of the Cameroon line , Trinidade and Madeira magmas have clearly resided in the upper mantle since the oceanic lithosphere was formed , and have not been displaced laterally by asthenospheric flow relative to the lithosphere since that time . |
| 15 | Since there was little practical guidance available in the literature and most previous research had not been carried out under normal classroom conditions , we decided to enlist the help of a number of experienced teachers who were using ‘ collaborative approaches successfully . |
| 16 | It is important to distinguish between such lexical analysis of uncontrolled terms in thesis titles , ( which has not been carried out in any detail in the present study but which is one of the factors analysed in a paper in preparation by the author ) , and the subject classification carried out by Rolfe , Will and in the Laming list . |
| 17 | It is encouraging too that these links have not been restricted only to those centres which themselves offer both SCOTVEC advanced courses and degrees . |
| 18 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 19 | The connections between theories of unconscious subjectivity and feminist politics , which , Lipschitz suggests , might break the feminist therapeutic impasse , have not been spelled out by feminist therapists , or by feminist psychologists more generally . |
| 20 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 21 | In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations . |
| 22 | ‘ The horses have not been running well for three or four months , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Almost identical , if you had not been brought up by Victorine to know that one was good and the other bad : both had wide shop windows displaying shelves of apple tarts , turnovers , puffs ; striped awnings above ; tiled steps . |
| 24 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
| 25 | This question has not been taken up in any serious way . |
| 26 | Anyone considering a purchase from this company should make sure they get cast-iron guarantees concerning specification and after sales support or , like me and many others to my knowledge , they will wish that they had not been taken in by misleading advertising and had paid a little more money to an established British company . |
| 27 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 29 | Child benefit has not been uprated annually since 1987 . |
| 30 | I can not imagine why the Conservatives have not been campaigning harder on this issue . |