Example sentences of "have not [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
2 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
9 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by |
13 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |