Example sentences of "have not [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There is a defence for a young man under 24 who has not previously been charged with a similar offence and who believes that the girl is 16 years old .
2 UITF Consensus No 3 states in para 7 that ‘ the amount included in the consolidated profit and loss account in respect of the profit or loss on disposal of a previously acquired business , subsidiary or associated undertaking should be determined by including , if material , the attributable amount of purchased goodwill where it has previously been eliminated against reserves as a matter of accounting policy and has not previously been charged in the profit and loss account ’ .
3 Although these parameters are well cited in the prediction of melting temperatures for defined-sequences RNA duplexes , the striking relationship between the enthalpy and entropy of stacking interactions has not previously been highlighted in the manner shown .
4 The erasure of shell growth we found has not previously been reported in the longstanding literature on molluscan growth .
5 The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is .
6 Another outstanding Box feature was SIMON AND LAURA ( 1956 ) a comedy about live television production starring Kay Kendall and Peter Finch whose wit and sharpness has not since been rivalled by films on similar themes .
7 Initial identification of variables has not generally been discussed as a problem , presumably because linguistic elements of English which vary in a socially patterned manner are often very salient and sometimes rather general throughout the English-speaking world .
8 However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) .
9 The addition of the American mink to the British fauna has not exactly been met with jubilant welcome .
10 But the company has not simply been tinkering with cosmetics without a thought for the cars themselves .
11 Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it .
12 In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder .
13 When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module .
14 A drawer can stop the payment of a cheque lost or stolen by immediately informing the bank , giving the cheque number and payee , providing it has not already been passed through a bank .
15 The entire field of syntactic analysis in sociolinguistics is characterized by diversity , and there are many important areas where agreement has not yet been reached on appropriate goals and methods .
16 The cash figure in the balance sheet might include both capital and operating cash : if a debenture is issued but the resulting cash has not yet been invested in fixed assets , then the cash will perhaps be shown in the cash book — this is capital cash ; if profits were made in the current year , some of these profits might take the form of cash — this is operating cash .
17 In other words , the series begins at the threshold of adulthood , when expectation has not yet been revised by experience .
18 The details have already been completed , but the proposed law has not yet been presented to parliament .
19 McClellan 's ‘ square root ’ principle offers a mathematical solution to the problem which , though crude , has not yet been supplanted by an alternative .
20 Since the target 's code has not yet been transferred to a lexical output system , there will no longer be any representation of the target anywhere .
21 But the south Wirral woman has not yet been reunited with the two-year-old girl she left at Arrowe Park Hospital .
22 Although this valley is only four hours away from London , it has not yet been discovered by tourists and artists .
23 In the Jovian atmosphere the most likely condensates , that is , cloud-making substances , are ammonia , water and a compound of ammonia and hydrogen sulphide ( H 2 S ) called ammonium hydrosulphide ( NH 4 SH ) , and though H 2 S has not yet been detected in the Jovian atmosphere small amounts should be present .
24 The P3A + protein variant is expressed in the muscle cell line TE671 ( 8 ) , but assembly of P3A + into a pentameric nAChR protein has not yet been demonstrated in muscle tissue .
25 It is more fibrin-selective than human t-PA in experimental animal models but has not yet been tested in man .
26 It is evident , at least , that this has not yet been achieved in any generally acceptable way , and in this sense some of the basic elements in the theoretical framework of political sociology remain indefinite .
27 But the task has not yet been achieved by any means .
28 Activation and deactivation of integrins as a result of stimulation of other integrin and non-integrin receptors has been described in platelets and lymphocytes but has not yet been studied in hepatocytes .
29 Microsoft Corp said last week it has started ships of the beta test version of the Windows NT operating system : the beta version has not yet been tuned for performance or size , and does not yet include scheduling or the electronics mail .
30 Even allowing for the fact that NT has not yet been tuned for speed or reached production release , Brown says there appears to be additional overhead incurred when executing Windows 3.1 applications under NT .
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