Example sentences of "[not/n't] been [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They give us a vivid idea of what the lending libraries would be like if the popular mass-circulation libraries had not been crushed by the public libraries in their politically motivated post-war form . |
| 2 | Having decided that the doctrine of automatic determination ( ie determination of a contract solely at the will of the party who was guilty of a wrongful repudiatory breach ) did not exist , even in employment contracts , Megarry V-C concluded that as the breach had not been accepted by the innocent party then the contract subsisted and therefore for the period which it had to run — circa four and a half years — the defendant was bound by its terms . |
| 3 | The new article 198(a) to chapter 4 of the draft treaty on the union , on a committee of regional and local authorities , has not been opposed by the British Government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We know of one family collection consisting of 10 pictures that have not been seen by the general public . |
| 6 | By dint of demanding £25,000 deposits up front , AML 's order-book has not been hit by the '90s recession or the Gulf War ( some 30% of Aston Martins go to Arabic buyers ) , but some more permanent answer is clearly needed . |
| 7 | This trend , moreover , has not been halted by the recent government cuts in public expenditure . |
| 8 | Foinavon was plodding along towards the rear , but not that far behind the favourite Honey End , whose jockey Josh Gifford had not been tempted by the furious early pace and who was still running well within himself . |
| 9 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 10 | But the stench of diesel oil gave away the fact that the fish had not been killed by the bad weather . |
| 11 | There were 170,000 refugees in Croatia with an estimated additional 10,000 unregistered in the republic , and 35,000 in the Serbian area of Krajina , who , according to the Yugoslav Red Cross , had not been registered by the Croatian Red Cross . |
| 12 | But the teenager , whose identity has not been revealed by the Welsh Rugby Union , maintains the clash was an accident . |
| 13 | But Sir Norman and Mr Heseltine rallied around the Prime Minister , saying his survival had not been threatened by the bitter speech yesterday . |
| 14 | But Sir Norman and Mr Heseltine rallied around the Prime Minister , saying his survival had not been threatened by the bitter speech yesterday . |
| 15 | This independence has not been recognized by the Soviet authorities nor by any other sovereign state [ see pp. 37360-62 ] . |
| 16 | TODAY 'S excellent programme at Cheltenham has not been ruined by the hard ground to the extent which at one time appeared likely and there are two bonus runners , namely the champion hurdler , Beech Road in the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle , and the Queen Mother Two Mile Champion Chase winner Barnbrook Again in the A.F.Budge Handicap Chase . |
| 17 | Credit rationing in the UK has not been favoured by The Conservative government of the 1980s and early 1990s . |
| 18 | According to Intel Japan president Bill Howe , Intel 's business in Japan has not been affected by the strong yen , and any bad effect from the recession is more than counteracted by the movement to the high-speed 80486 currently going on in Japan . |
| 19 | ‘ The legal sovereignty of Parliament has not been affected by the European Communities Act . ’ |
| 20 | It must be emphasised that the preceding information does not constitute some new revolutionary theory , but echoes a once universal understanding of the true workings of nature embraced by the knowledgeable in every high civilisation of the past , and perhaps intuitively felt by most sensitive individuals who have not been bludgeoned by the dull instruments of Western reductionism . |
| 21 | The universities of Europe which have not been influenced by the analytical tradition … have by no means represented any unitary tradition . |
| 22 | In so far as the approach to a new transaction has not been covered by the general comments made above , much depends on whether the conveyancer is acting for a seller or a buyer . |
| 23 | Mr Ferman said previous computer games have not been covered by the 1984 Video Recordings Act , which lays down criteria for rating videos . |
| 24 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 25 | The battle plan had still not been approved by the Japanese government . |
| 26 | THE International Weightlifting Federation , stung by a wave of positive drug tests , has introduced a controversial testing system which has not been approved by the Olympic movement . |
| 27 | I hope that the Minister will reassure us that the fact that some of these orders have not been considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments will not happen again . |
| 28 | Matters have not been helped by the disastrous fire in the Piper-Alpha field which put a lot of potential production out of commission for a number of months . |
| 29 | Coppell , who turned down an indirect approach from Sunderland , has not been helped by the public criticisms of Noades . |
| 30 | With observation that the primary sufferer has not been helped by the previous well-meaning actions of the family member while at the same time the life of the family member has definitely been harmed by various attempts to help or control the disease of the primary sufferer . |