Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt guilty that she had not yet been to visit Miss Grimes in her bed-sitting room somewhere off the Finchley Road , really within easy distance of where she lived , so there was really no excuse . |
| 2 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |
| 3 | He said that it had not yet been decided how to go about making the cuts in all areas , notably in France , and it is not clear whether the figure of 3,000 includes the 800 to 900 positions that Bull said last week that it intended to eliminate in France . |
| 4 | It had been courteously framed , but Goibniu had arranged for Balor to go with them and Floy had known — and everyone had known — that it had not really been a request but a command . |
| 5 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 6 | Smith , 29 , who has a year to run on his present deal , has had preliminary discussions with Mr Graham but Ken Friar , Arsenal 's managing director , said yesterday that he had not yet been formally offered a fresh contract . |
| 7 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |
| 8 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 9 | He wished to be able to show by affidavit evidence that he had not occupied the house qua pauper but had paid rates and carried out repairs , and that he had not therefore been chargeable on the parish during the period of his occupation ; the magistrate could not give himself jurisdiction by his own affirmation of it . |