Example sentences of "[conj] they had not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 2 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 3 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 4 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 5 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 6 | Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ? |
| 7 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 8 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 9 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 10 | Besides , TANU members had been involved in the press , while they had not been involved in radio . |
| 11 | Rain asked whether they had not been able to get the story published elsewhere . |
| 12 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |