Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child benefit , the principal family benefit , has not been increased in line with pensions and other benefits . |
| 2 | Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default . |
| 3 | The alleyways were scored with deep trenches down which the water ran when it rained ; or would have run had its passage not been blocked by heaps of refuse , dung and animal guts , behind which the water collected in stagnant pools , above which mosquitoes hung in a cloud . |
| 4 | ‘ ( a ) when the whole of the price has not been paid or tendered ; ( b ) when a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument has been received as conditional payment , and the condition on which it was received has not been fulfilled by reason of the dishonour of the instrument or otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | After pressure from Chatichai , however , the Prince announced on April 24 that he would attend the meeting , but warned that it could achieve nothing of value because the invitation had not been extended to representatives of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 6 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 7 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 8 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |
| 9 | If the valuation has not been made in accordance with the express terms of the contract then it is clearly not binding . |
| 10 | But these unions have not been recognised by BR for negotiating purposes and their impact has been limited . |
| 11 | Following treatment , calves should be moved to pasture which has not been grazed by cattle in the same year . |
| 12 | Keith Sinclair and Gordon Lucking claim they have not been kept in touch with club affairs and that there has not been a board meeting since May last year . |
| 13 | The stunts gave Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em a visual comedy that has not been seen on television before or since . |
| 14 | Such figures had not been seen in Germany since the early 1950s and , as elsewhere in Europe , heavy industry was worst hit . |
| 15 | And although they have not been seen in Ireland for many years , sometimes they are heard . |
| 16 | Since bananas have not been seen in Romania for years and many children have never eaten one before , they sell quickly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hillingdon 's thesis was that ‘ unexpressed needs ’ , though felt , had not been seen in terms of a library solution , whilst in the case of ‘ unactivated need ’ the library stimulated demand for needs which had not even been felt . |
| 19 | Second , there are some works which simply have not been seen in exhibitions in the past . |
| 20 | The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is . |
| 21 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 22 | The important point to note is that under such vicarious arrangements the vendor remains responsible directly to the customer and will still be sued by the customer for non-performance or for breach of the contract if the work has not been undertaken in accordance with the terms of the contract . |
| 23 | Where a vehicle has not been tared in accordance with Note 3 , a ‘ Gross Weight ’ ticket only should be issued . |
| 24 | But even if he had not been separated from Alexei by duty , and leaving aside the connivance of Irina 's family , a gap would have existed between them . |
| 25 | The point he seems to have missed is that even if the BBC had not been outbid by Sky for coverage , it was , I think , unlikely that we would have seen ( a ) ball-by-ball-by-ball coverage ( not highlights ) during social hours on the following day . |
| 26 | Something that has not been illustrated in Collectair in the past is the printed and illustrated match-slip ( or book-matches ) . |
| 27 | They are very experienced and often very powerful figures within their unions , but have not been studied in depth for almost twenty years . |
| 28 | This idea has not been studied in detail in any lek species to date . |
| 29 | Hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is effective in the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis but has not been studied in patients with inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 30 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |