Example sentences of "have not [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 2 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 5 | Where a university subject of the candidate 's choice has not been allocated a quota award , it may be possible for the Head of Department to nominate the candidate for an appeals award . |
| 6 | A smaller table was beside the desk with a high-backed typewriter , the sign of a junior executive who has not been allocated a personal secretary and must write his own memoranda . |
| 7 | But there are grounds for scepticism : there has not been produced a clear coherent overall plan which places significant values , skills and , characteristics at the forefront of the curriculum . |
| 8 | The jubilant Knox wrote about her death in terms which make it clear why charity has not been thought a notable feature of Scottish Calvinism . |
| 9 | The talks were regarded as significant given that on previous visits to the United States , the Dalai Lama had not been granted a meeting with the President . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The line had not been run a week before all Europeans connected with it were discharged , and the whole thing was controlled by the Chinese , who had carefully watched the progress of the work , and had stored up a vast mass of data for future use . |
| 17 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |
| 18 | In the particular case in question , the complainant 's father had not been offered a bed by the health authority , although he was assessed as needing nursing care . |
| 19 | During that pause I realized that Mala had not been offered a seat , nor any food or drink . |
| 20 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 21 | The government on March 14 , 1990 , reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on a second structural adjustment programme ; Congo 's first such programme , initiated in 1985 [ see p. 34406 ] , had not been considered a success . |
| 22 | Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by |
| 23 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 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 . |