Example sentences of "not be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 2 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 3 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 4 | He had not been expecting the change in subject . |
| 5 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 6 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 7 | The four tenants had actually been paying their rent , but the landlord had not been using the money to pay off his mortgage . |
| 8 | all you have , all you have to say to him is dad 's back at work , he 's not been using the telly |
| 9 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 10 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 11 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 12 | But the GMC has not been given the power to set out which treatments are ‘ scientifically validated ’ and therefore permissible and those that are not and therefore forbidden . |
| 13 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 14 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 15 | It will seem strange to them that the House has not been given the opportunity to hear a statement on the matter , or to debate it . |
| 16 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 17 | The local councils in Birmingham , Bristol , Liverpool , Manchester and Sheffield , among others , denied this charge and pointed to several joint ventures with business , arguing that had they not been denied the resources , more co-operation would have been possible . |
| 18 | Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children . |
| 19 | Where the Cleveland guidelines have not been followed the courts have refused to rely on statements made by children during the course of interviews ( Re E ( a Minor ) ( Child Abuse : Evidence ) [ 1990 ] 1 FLR 420 ) . |
| 20 | In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity , reported also by others . |
| 21 | Firstly , if the decree absolute of divorce has not been pronounced the parties are still husband and wife ( Fender v St John-Mildmay [ 1938 ] AC 1 ) ; and we have seen that transfers between them ( provided they are both domiciled in the UK ) are exempt from a charge to inheritance tax ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) even if they are living apart . |
| 22 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 23 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 24 | Scotland 's Olympic three-day event double silver medallist , Ian Stark , has not been nicknamed the ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ for hanging about on a cross-country course . |
| 25 | Your worships , those are the circumstances I would ask you to bear in mind that this man a ha , has four summonses against him purely as a result of really ignorance as far as purchasing documents is concerned they were in order and erm he would of produced them had he realised what the officer was saying to him and er , that he would of realised had he not been suffering the shock , but he was actually sufferance suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 26 | They were in order and erm he would have produced them had he realized what the officer was saying to him and er that he would have er realized had he not been suffering the shock that he was actually shuff suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 27 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 28 | Despite management optimism , the factory had not been making the goods to meet the profits required , said Mr Laird . |
| 29 | ‘ I am sad we have not been afforded the same welcome given to the Beirut hostages , ’ he told a deeply moved audience at the AGM last month . |
| 30 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |