Example sentences of "they have [not/n't] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 2 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 3 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 4 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 5 | It was amazing they had n't been invaded by detectives and policemen already . |
| 6 | It was a wonder they had n't been buried under it , and their injuries correspondingly worse . |
| 7 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |
| 8 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
| 9 | Paul Mba Abessole , a prominent opposition figure and leader of a faction of the main opposition group , the National Rectification Movement ( Morena ) , refused to accept a Cabinet post , as did some other opposition politicians , on the grounds that they had not been consulted on the composition of the new government , which included a number of ministers from the outgoing Cabinet . |
| 10 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 11 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |
| 12 | They had not been asked about materials because a layman 's opinion , or even a manufacturer 's label , was not reliable . |
| 13 | Above all , from her point of view , they had not been converted from their fierce and dangerous gods to the love and freedom that the Holy Catholic Church was supposed to confer . |
| 14 | The two fires , within a 100 yards of each other , could have had ‘ catastrophic ’ consequences if they had not been discovered on the ground floors of Dunsyre House , Calder Crescent , and Medwin House , Calder Park , a court heard . |
| 15 | But they had not been destroyed by the explosion : bewilderingly , their bodies were found in the garden some distance from the house , and they had obviously been strangled . |
| 16 | Parliament granted a tax of a sixteenth , and in return it was promised that the perambulations of Edward I should be confirmed , and that new perambulations should be made before Christmas in the forests where they had not been made in the previous reign . |
| 17 | They had not been schooled in the symptoms of such abuse , but she told reporters that the abuse of children was such a terrible problem in society , that everyone should be on the look-out for it . |
| 18 | And quickened his steps because , of course , they had not been lost at all and , of course , it had been ridiculous to think they had been . |
| 19 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 20 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 21 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 22 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 23 | Statutory provisions embodying the CICS have been enacted , but at the time of writing they had not been brought into force . |
| 24 | He felt , ’ said Angelina , with a quizzical look at Auguste , ‘ that they had not been specified on the Menu . ’ |
| 25 | Most local hoteliers and guesthouse owners , who said they had not been told of this , left before the vote was taken . |
| 26 | They had not been spotted after all . |
| 27 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 28 | She left Alexandra in no doubt that whatever services Carlo might have performed on Gina 's behalf , they had not been confined to public relations but had included private ones as well . |
| 29 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 30 | He also had a high opinion of British travellers and officials but felt that they were not dedicated , or good examples of Christian virtues ; they had not been chosen for their moral worth and were likely to be judged by Muslims in that light . |