Example sentences of "not been [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 2 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 3 | Therefore , these subfamilies have not been raised to full familial rank , until more evidence is available . |
| 4 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 5 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 6 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 7 | The strategic use of background material which has not been sent to any other media and an appropriate idea or two can achieve an in-depth feature which would not otherwise have been forthcoming . |
| 8 | This theme of administration in the landscape has not been studied to any great extent , and yet we have already seen that definition of estates is of critical importance in understanding the local landscape . |
| 9 | Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help . |
| 10 | I have not been referred to any case which has directly considered the interplay between planning permission and the law of nuisance . |
| 11 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 12 | Had the two junctions not been converted to single track it would be impossible for two trains to collide on them , BR 's then director of operations , Ivor Warburton , agreed . |
| 13 | Answer guide : This is something the student has not been exposed to 80 it is useful to let them discuss how they would treat the transaction in detail so they can work out for themselves the principles involved . |
| 14 | If on the other hand the board does not fully and cleanly develop after a couple of minutes , then the board has not been exposed to UV light for long enough . |
| 15 | ‘ Not in our set , at all events — for we 've not been asked to any ! ’ |
| 16 | The matter of the paper is to present those areas of AI ( some would say that is too parochial and what I shall put forward belongs more generally to Computer Science ) where a mechanical analogue of consciousness might be sought in the future , and to argue that they are not the obvious places , and have not been subjected to much philosophical investigation . |
| 17 | Nevertheless there are , in both units , large cohorts of patients with HIV infection with mildly abnormal liver function tests who have not been subjected to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography . |
| 18 | Situated as it is approximately one mile from the Hull/ York road , it has grown gradually , and yet not been subjected to heavy traffic apart from distribution and collection purposes . |
| 19 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | The early Anglo-Saxon period is unspectacular and , except for the rare and fabulous discoveries such as the ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) has not been brought to popular attention . |
| 21 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 22 | Of course the influence of Buchanan has not been confined to Western Europe . |
| 23 | She left Alexandra in no doubt that whatever services Carlo might have performed on Gina 's behalf , they had not been confined to public relations but had included private ones as well . |
| 24 | Thus began the Curse of the Bambino , which has not been lifted to this day . |
| 25 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 26 | However , the fact that these works had not been shown to any Russian museum curators caused considerable trouble for the organisers . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind the magnitude of soil erosion which has occurred in sensitive areas including the Dust Bowl , parts of China and of Africa it is surprising that more attention has not been directed to this aspect of the human impact . |