Example sentences of "not [been] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This right of access to the Court has not been exercised by many third States , but could failure to deposit a non-party declaration with the Registrar of the Court be taken as non-acceptance of the right so that it could no longer be claimed ? |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | As Arendt has pointed out , ‘ In all these cases , legitimacy derives from something outside the range of human deeds ; it is either not man-made at all … or has at least not been made by those who happen to be in power . ’ |
| 6 | Makarenko made the important deduction that as the theories discarded at the Revolution had not been replaced by precise new ones , the abstract and muddled notions of officials like the education inspector were no substitute for practical self-help . |
| 7 | What had not been realised by all concerned was the fearful advance in the scientific methods of waging war — no longer was war a man to man affair — men could be destroyed in hundreds from a distance and that ability was not confined to one side alone . |
| 8 | The strange occurrence at Ingrow Tunnel has not been explained by logical reasons and so must be regarded as , maybe , a paranormal phenomenon . |
| 9 | Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care . |
| 10 | These analyses have not been confirmed by modern methods . |
| 11 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 12 | The resistance of Ulster had not been created by British Unionists and could hardly be said to depend on them , but the knowledge of support was certainly useful to Carson and Craig in giving their plans for rebellion an official look . |
| 13 | It has happened that individuals who have not been contacted by MAS have become aware that the client 's business is being marketed and have telephoned MAS asking to speak to the manager handling the sale . |
| 14 | There at least the ideological differences have not been obfuscated by national divisions . |
| 15 | This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life . |
| 16 | Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious . |
| 17 | RENFE repeatedly complained that deficit financing weakened management ‘ which has not been motivated by economic or commercial considerations but purely by technical ones ’ ( RENFE 1971m : 49 ) . |
| 18 | Although prepared foods are very good there is a feeling that there may be some advantage to live foods in that their vitamins , minerals and so on have not been affected by any processing . |
| 19 | The EC Communications and Telecommunications Ministers agreed on Dec. 8 , 1989 , on a programme to deregulate and liberalize the remaining areas of the EC market in telecommunications which had not been covered by earlier agreements ( see p. 36494 ) , voting to deregulate value-added telephone services by April 1 , 1990 ( with transitional concessions to Spain , Portugal and Greece ) , and to extend the ruling to packet-switching and circuit-switching services by the start of 1993 . |
| 20 | The need for reappraisal in the 1950s was underlined by accumulating evidence that rising standards of material prosperity , education and social welfare had not been matched by any corresponding decline in offending . |
| 21 | ( Talks in 1973 which produced the short-lived Sunningdale agreement had not been attended by hard-line unionists — see pp. 26301-04 . ) |
| 22 | However , it was considered that this would make it too expensive for the ‘ generality of purchasers ’ and it was confined to ‘ those plants only which are either curious in themselves or may be useful in trades , medicines , etc. including the figures of such new plants as have not been noticed by any former botanists . ’ |
| 23 | The ‘ real local enthusiasm ’ has not been generated by this organisation : why was there no mention of the petition prepared by the STPS and signed by four of the five communities surrounding Laganas Bay , the Zakynthos hoteliers ' association , and the local association of communities ? |
| 24 | By the end of the text the reader feels sympathetic towards Lady Macbeth because she realises that no good will emerge where ambition had not been achieved by good fortune and ‘ borrowed robes ’ all too often do n't fit . |
| 25 | The agency 's allegations have not been supported by other major conservation groups , although Buff Bohlen , a World Wide Fund for Nature official , said he was concerned over what he believed was money from business trading in illegally poached ivory going to support the secretariat 's work . |
| 26 | In the writer 's experience it will be sufficient to lodge with the application : ( i ) an explanation as to why the application has not been signed by both proprietors ( eg the parties are separated and the husband refuses to reply ) ; ( ii ) a copy of the notice of severance ; and ( iii ) a certificate of posting of the notice and confirmation of delivery . |
| 27 | The present situation had not been envisaged by early British socialist thinkers ( see Normanton , 1980 , p. 181 ) . |
| 28 | It had not been predicted by any of the models simulating potential pollution effects on the stratosphere . |
| 29 | This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people . |
| 30 | For Tolkien , whose literary pilgrimage was to be so lonely , and whose return to Oxford had not been marked by great domestic happiness , there was something very cheering in the company of this clever , widely read , humorous and spontaneously affectionate Irishman . |