Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 2 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 3 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 4 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 5 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 6 | He had not been expecting the change in subject . |
| 7 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 8 | For example , left-handedness has not been considered an impairment , while above-average weight has not been viewed an impairment unless the result of a physiological disorder . |
| 9 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 10 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I have not been using a dust-pan . ’ |
| 11 | The four tenants had actually been paying their rent , but the landlord had not been using the money to pay off his mortgage . |
| 12 | all you have , all you have to say to him is dad 's back at work , he 's not been using the telly |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 15 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 16 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 17 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 18 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 19 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 20 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 25 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 28 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 29 | But the GMC has not been given the power to set out which treatments are ‘ scientifically validated ’ and therefore permissible and those that are not and therefore forbidden . |
| 30 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |