Example sentences of "not [been] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director . |
| 2 | There is no inherent power to take an action , or exercise a power , which has not been created by a rule or other contract provision . |
| 3 | It was fairly clear to anyone who knew English and Burmese that this had not been written by a Burman . |
| 4 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 5 | I 've never not been seen by a kid . |
| 6 | It tended to arrange debates late at night , and much too close to the critical Council meeting , when it realized it would otherwise have to maintain a parliamentary reserve in the Council if scrutiny had not been completed by a debate . |
| 7 | Had the player not been defied by a remarkable save by Kopke , Ferguson 's value would have soared in time for the day when Dundee United are finally made the offer they can not refuse . |
| 8 | The concern about the unbalanced getting imageries for action from porn videos and television violence has not been matched by a concern that the popular newspapers may also be providing similar material . |
| 9 | The difference arises because the expected reduction in research income , a trend affecting many universities as a result of a move towards greater selectivity , has not been matched by a corresponding increase in teaching funding . |
| 10 | But among the more lowly paid members of staff there was a feeling that the sacrifices that they had been urged to make over the previous twelve months — the constraints and pay-freezes and appeals to their better nature — had not been matched by a tempering of Branson 's acquisitive spirit . |
| 11 | However , when normal platelets were incubated with increasing glucose concentrations in vitro thromboxane production was unaffected ( Best et al , 1979 ) , and the findings of Halushka et al ( 1981 b ) and McDonald et al ( 1982 ) have not been supported by a recent study of platelet thromboxane generation before and after CS11 ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 13 | However , because the village newcomers possess their own cars , the reversal in the decline in rural population has not been accompanied by a revival of public transport . |
| 14 | Distortions and rigidities in the labour market have meant that rising unemployment has not been accompanied by a matching fall in wage rates . |
| 15 | While localism has declined , specially in the north-east and the south-east , this has not been accompanied by a rise in the proportion of students leaving Scotland . |
| 16 | Similarly , the decline in profits in the eurobond market has not been accompanied by a particularly marked decline in concentration since 1982 . |
| 17 | The poor image of Caribbean offshore centres has not been improved by a series of major banking scandals in Montserrat and serious allegations of money laundering in the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands . |
| 18 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if a mature woman is sexually assaulted by a stranger in daylight or at home , then she has not been raped by a man but a monster . |
| 20 | This trend reflects a developing and successful specificity of probation practice : the pity is that this specificity of practice has not been complemented by a more appropriate specificity of language from the authors of the White Paper . |