Example sentences of "[vb past] not [be] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 2 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 3 | In Jean et Blonde , the hero 's beloved , although English , is described in terms of perfection , and the fact that ‘ There was just a suspicion in her speech/ That she had not been born at Pontoise ’ is a very minor and venial offence against courloisie . |
| 4 | Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter . |
| 5 | Members of Fimbra could be responsible for claims of more than £32m if its payments had not been capped at £5m , with the remainders ' being paid by other self-regulatory organisations . |