Example sentences of "have not been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 2 | The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice . |
| 3 | The workers ' faith has not been repaid this week — in a region which had escaped many of the severe job cuts which had hit other cities . |
| 4 | One element — that of the private mines — has not been mentioned this evening . |
| 5 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 6 | Being highly centralized , the British system has not been to have powerful centres outside London from which groups of services can be conducted for that area , but to administer each of the important functions of government from Whitehall for the whole of the country . |
| 7 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 8 | The woman , in her sixties from England , had not been named last night . |
| 9 | I saw now exactly why , when General Francis 's name came up , Daisy bemoaned the fact that she had not been born twenty years earlier . |
| 10 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 11 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 12 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 13 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 14 | I was not given the run of the pavillon and I took it that , since I had not been extended this facility , I was not welcome to it . |
| 15 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 16 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 17 | Ukraine participated in a non-voting capacity , since its head of delegation had not been given plenary powers other than to sign agreements on co-operation in meteorology , environmental protection , and electricity production ( Ukraine did not in fact sign these agreements ) . |
| 18 | She had not been given any choice in the matter . |
| 19 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 20 | The 22-year-old , in a coma since he was injured during the FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield Wednesday ground on April 15 , 1989 , had not been given artificial help to survive since February 22 . |
| 21 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 22 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 23 | In the Federal Court , Beaumont J. held that the Cabinet decision to nominate Stage 2 for listing was void since the owners of the mining rights had not been accorded natural justice before the decision to list the area . |
| 24 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 25 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 27 | I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures . |
| 28 | I 've not been given any instructions ! |
| 29 | They 've not been allowed any breakfast . ’ |
| 30 | Dr Richard Allan , establishment director , said : ‘ They 've not been allowed any alcohol . |