Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 2 | The United Kingdom , in particular , had an interest in protesting the closure of New Zealand 's ports to ships which had not been confirmed to be neither nuclear armed nor propelled . |
| 3 | In another case , the objection was that the Commission had heard argument from one company which had not been put to the other company . |
| 4 | The control lanes show mainly full-length transcripts arising from elongation of the initiated transcription complex which had not been subjected to drug treatment . |
| 5 | The Left now completely rejected MacDonald 's concept of " gradualism " which had not been subjected to searching criticism until some three or four years before he left the party . |
| 6 | Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire . |
| 7 | I was just wondering , would you have imposed these very high home care charges if you 'd not been forced to by the cuts imposed by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 8 | I knew she had not been asked to the service at which her husband 's ashes were placed in the Spencer vault . |
| 9 | Would Jennifer Jones have won five nominations and one Oscar ( The Song of Bernadette , 1943 ) , if she had not been married to David O Selznick ? |
| 10 | After her long wakefulness in the night there was no escaping that thought , there was no escaping the suggestion of a pattern : the son who had not been born to her was nevertheless there for her . |
| 11 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 12 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 13 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 14 | Naturally the students who had not been admitted to the courses of their first choice were in general no more than minimally qualified . |
| 15 | If one had not been inclined to before , one had to go on reading after this : ‘ Take three thrillers on a series of long-distance air journeys . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 19 | The Crown sought an order for the taxpayer 's appeal to be struck out under s 56(4) , TMA 1970 , as it had not been submitted to the High Court within 30 days of receipt . |
| 20 | ( But there was always the sudden stab at his heart when he reasoned thus , because he had not been born to it ! ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 23 | Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted . |
| 24 | Guenter Emig , the head of the commission , said the athletes were free to compete again , as the case against them had not been proved to the extent necessary for the suspension to be upheld . |