Example sentences of "and have [not/n't] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 2 | Now when that acid is fresh and has n't been used before two minutes is usually quite enough for it to have done the job it 's supposed to do . |
| 3 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 4 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 5 | If he is under 24 , and has not been charged with this offence before and has an honest belief on reasonable grounds that the girl was above 16 , he will have a defence . |
| 6 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 7 | Morgan Grenfell seems happy and has not been looking over Mr Massey 's shoulder . |
| 8 | Helen Wrangham was put on a hospital waiting list last April and has not been treated despite being in constant pain , claims her father Peter , of Hart Station . |
| 9 | Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 . |
| 10 | The job analysis is a voluntary activity at these schools and has not been seen as another way of pulling the teacher 's leash . |
| 11 | By then Pastor Tokes had disappeared and has not been heard of since . |
| 12 | LONDON ( Reuter ) — The former Sudanese prime minister , Sadeq al-Mahdi , deposed in a military coup in July , was taken from Khartoum 's Kober prison last weekend and has not been heard from since , his cousin said . |
| 13 | ‘ Oppression , oppression , oppression , ’ grumbled a veiled and outspoken woman named Fatiya Abdel-Aziz , whose brother Ibrahim was swept up by police in February in the slum of Dar es-Salaam and has not been heard from since . |
| 14 | They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of . |
| 15 | Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing . |
| 16 | Self-belief has been a problem this season and has not been helped by narrow defeats against Wasps ( 11–7 ) , Saracens ( 13–12 ) and London Irish ( 12–9 ) and a 9–9 draw with Rugby . |
| 17 | The Library Association 's position is therefore based entirely on the rule of law : whatever is published and has not been banned by law is permissible within a library . |
| 18 | PLEASE NOTE — The information on this page has been supplied by District Councils and individual establishments and has not been verified by Somerset Tourism . |
| 19 | It is essential to locate the dpc to ensure it really is at least 6in ( 15cm ) above ground level and has not been submerged below paving , flower beds , piles of rubbish or suchlike . |
| 20 | This was issued in February 1993 and has not been included in the Index . |
| 21 | For the most part , land that has been set aside is of poor conservation value , and has not been managed in a way which would bring out environmental benefits . |
| 22 | The Katz Motel was a klick out of town , and had n't been touched by the firefight . |
| 23 | Topaz had Amossy 's fierce , unyielding spirit and had n't been broken by the indifference and contempt shewn to her since she was old enough to understand such treatment . |
| 24 | Joe had called her some names , and had n't been reassured at all . |
| 25 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 26 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 27 | The left-wing news magazine Análisis , in a special report a week after the reburial , claimed that the examination of Allende 's body after it was exhumed on Aug. 14 had substantiated eyewitness claims that he had committed suicide , and had not been shot by soldiers . |
| 28 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 29 | The Slovak government initially claimed that they had been planted by the federal authorities in the 1980s and had not been functioning since 1989 . |
| 30 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |