Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [not/n't] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 2 | The man , who has not been named at the request of his family , was found collapsed in a cell at Darlington police station on March 8 and was certified dead at the scene . |
| 3 | Her body was found by her husband , who has not been named by police , at their home in Crawley , Sussex . |
| 4 | The 44-year-old woman , who has not been named by police , was pulled from the River Wear in Sunderland by firemen on a routine training exercise . |
| 5 | Winners Dog Male winner of each class who has not been beaten in any other class , competes for Winners Dog . |
| 6 | Who has not been cheered by the song of a robin or thrush , the sight of a kingfisher or the flickering patterns made by a rising flock of lapwings against a dark winter sky , and not felt the better for the experience ? |
| 7 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 8 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 9 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 10 | At school next day , even the girls who had n't been asked to the party wished her a happy birthday . |
| 11 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 12 | After her long wakefulness in the night there was no escaping that thought , there was no escaping the suggestion of a pattern : the son who had not been born to her was nevertheless there for her . |
| 13 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 14 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 15 | The rest of the Battalion arrived at intervals including some of the missing men of A company who had not been seen since Waterloo . |
| 16 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 17 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 18 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 19 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 20 | City workers who had not been contacted by their own company were advised to call their normal switchboard number for direction . |
| 21 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 22 | In a speech on July 5 President Banda had announced an intention to charge and try all detainees suspected of breaking the law , saying that a special tribunal headed by a High Court judge would be set up to hear appeals from any detainees who had not been charged with any offence . |
| 23 | It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity . |
| 24 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 25 | Naturally the students who had not been admitted to the courses of their first choice were in general no more than minimally qualified . |
| 26 | It does complain that the tabloids put the fear of tax increases into readers who had not been targeted by Smith 's budget . |
| 27 | Digfar was run almost entirely by local Somali staff — 25 doctors and nearly 100 nurses — who had not been paid for over two years . |
| 28 | The Christian neglect of the gods , indeed the propensity of the more militant to hiss in disapproval as they walked by a temple , offended polytheists , who feared that heaven would not be propitious : floods , plagues , famines , earthquakes were sent by angry spirit-powers who had not been placated with the customary offerings . |
| 29 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 30 | Penwith and Kerrier hundreds were obviously poorer than the eastern parts of the shire ; a high proportion of men were taxed on wages who had not been thought worth mentioning in the earlier survey , many of them poor immigrants variously described as tinners or labourers . |