Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and regret to advise that you have not been selected for interview . |
| 2 | In five of these seven , the stones were also found by ultrasonagraphy but in two , recurrences were identified by oral cholecystectography , which had not been detected by echography . |
| 3 | Prost has to finish four points ahead of Lauda to be champion ( having more victories ; it would have been three if Monaco had not been curtailed by rain , but then , if rain had not fallen , Prost would not have won in Monaco ) . |
| 4 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 5 | Child benefit , the principal family benefit , has not been increased in line with pensions and other benefits . |
| 6 | Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default . |
| 7 | At the time of writing these radical provisions of the 1989 Act have not been tested by experience , but this is unlikely to remain the case for long . |
| 8 | It would be unthinking , because the acceptance has not been tested in argument . |
| 9 | Officially , 550 species have been formally identified as endangered but an additional 3,600 threatened species have not been listed despite evidence that they required protection . |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 11 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 12 | ‘ ( a ) when the whole of the price has not been paid or tendered ; ( b ) when a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument has been received as conditional payment , and the condition on which it was received has not been fulfilled by reason of the dishonour of the instrument or otherwise . ’ |
| 13 | Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost . |
| 14 | Check that roots of wallflowers have not been loosened by wind and refirm them if necessary . |
| 15 | He welcomed the fact that VAT had not been extended to food and that there would be no increase in employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 16 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 17 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |
| 18 | If the valuation has not been made in accordance with the express terms of the contract then it is clearly not binding . |
| 19 | It should be emphasized that this rather high-flown detour from our primary thrust in this book has not been made in order to identify the nature of philosophy . |
| 20 | ‘ This appointment has not been made in order to fill a vacancy , ’ says the Nijgh & Van Ditmar editorial director Joost Nijsen . |
| 21 | The mandatory field listed has not been filled with information . |
| 22 | Recent history is not very encouraging since previous promises of effective decentralisation ( 1974 , 1982 ) have not been realised in practice . |
| 23 | He imagined labour as it would be , had it not been formulated by capitalism , and say that it would then be merely an aspect of the total business of living , unseparated from such activities as recreation , consumption , family life : that it would be just part of existence . |
| 24 | Keith Sinclair and Gordon Lucking claim they have not been kept in touch with club affairs and that there has not been a board meeting since May last year . |
| 25 | The stunts gave Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em a visual comedy that has not been seen on television before or since . |
| 26 | Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter . |
| 27 | The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is . |
| 28 | The important point to note is that under such vicarious arrangements the vendor remains responsible directly to the customer and will still be sued by the customer for non-performance or for breach of the contract if the work has not been undertaken in accordance with the terms of the contract . |
| 29 | On estates where the nobleman had not been engaged in farming , this was a second provision that had the effect of reducing the quantity of land which peasants received . |
| 30 | According to a government statement two years ago : ‘ notwithstanding this limited contingency arrangement Hinkley Point A has not been operated in order to produce military-grade plutonium . ’ |