Example sentences of "[noun sg] had not [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 .
2 He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain .
3 The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 .
4 Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements .
5 His slumber had not been at all restful .
6 Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever .
  Next page