Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not been cut loose . |
| 2 | Since subscriptions for membership have not been increased this year , one way in which everyone could help would be to add a donation — no matter how small — when sending in their subscription fee . |
| 3 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 4 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 7 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 8 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 9 | We 're simply saying that it 's not been demonstrated that regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account . |
| 10 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 11 | It also supplied to the board a momorandum which has not been made available to other people . |
| 12 | Use made of these facilities has been minimal up to now , largely because the technology had not been made available to RBGE staff before 1990 , and scientific staff were not aware of the possibilities . |
| 13 | If the changes revealed by this comparison have not been made prior to the audit commencing , this could be the reason for the failure to meet the target levels of attainment . |
| 14 | He also confirmed that he had authorized US aid to Honduras in return for Honduran assistance to the contras , a quid pro quo arrangement first revealed during the trial of Oliver North [ see p. 36649 ] , but he claimed that the linkage within the arrangement had not been made explicit . |
| 15 | In that case no such presumption could exist : on the contrary where Parliament had provided that the decision of an inferior court was final and conclusive the High Court should not be astute to find that the inferior court 's decision on a question of law had not been made final and conclusive , thereby excluding the jurisdiction to review it . |
| 16 | The Panel said that the conversations imparted material new information which had not been made public or could not be made public . |
| 17 | The Court 's position had not been made any easier by suggestions that it was possible for the Government to influence its decisions . |
| 18 | The current exercise has been no exception and the task has not been made any easier by the current level of economic uncertainty and its implications for the future size and structure of employment and unemployment at the end of the plan period . |
| 19 | To Ian 's suggestion that it must all be part of some exhibition Susan replies with the more plainly obvious answer — these things have not been made larger , the time-travellers have become smaller . |
| 20 | The reasons for the centre 's heed fur taxes like the prodnalog and many others had not been made clear to the villagers by the party cell . |
| 21 | The snag was it had deliberately not been made clear how much power he wielded over the Secret Service . |
| 22 | Hundreds of callers jammed the BBC switchboard for more than an hour , complaining it had not been made clear it was make believe . |
| 23 | A statement issued by the board said : ‘ We maintain , as we have done throughout the inquiry , that there is no reason to doubt Mr Evans 's own submission that he did raise his flag on each occasion , and we have not been made aware of any evidence that he did not . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | An approach to the examination of social policy has been introduced here that has not been given much explicit attention in relation to the study of specific policies . |
| 27 | Very small constellations have not been given separate maps , and in each case I have added some of the stars in adjacent groups to help in identification . |
| 28 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 29 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 30 | ‘ We are asking staff who have not been given another location to turn up at their nearest branch , where a desk and computer terminal will be provided for them . ’ |