Example sentences of "have not [been] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral .
2 New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week .
3 This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ .
4 He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing .
5 A smaller table was beside the desk with a high-backed typewriter , the sign of a junior executive who has not been allocated a personal secretary and must write his own memoranda .
6 But there are grounds for scepticism : there has not been produced a clear coherent overall plan which places significant values , skills and , characteristics at the forefront of the curriculum .
7 The jubilant Knox wrote about her death in terms which make it clear why charity has not been thought a notable feature of Scottish Calvinism .
8 If a separate confidentiality agreement has not been signed an appropriate undertaking can be embodied in the heads .
9 Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 .
10 In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland .
11 In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity , reported also by others .
12 If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them .
13 Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer .
14 Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice .
15 Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client .
16 Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit .
17 Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth .
18 Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by
19 ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’
20 She glanced at her left hand as if she 'd forgotten the fact , and was instantly ashamed to find herself wishing she had n't been wearing the showy diamond solitaire .
21 A member of the group had been bothered had n't been given the right advice for some years .
22 Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison .
23 In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' .
24 Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon .
25 He 's not been given a legal decision , he 's passed an opinion , saying oh , this , this woman , was , you know , encouraging the man , and things like that , and that 's what gets people 's backs up , I think .
26 John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong .
27 It is a shame that you have n't been having the gorgeous autumn which we have enjoyed .
28 ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently .
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