Example sentences of "there had [not/n't] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then .
2 There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners .
3 The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night .
4 She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage .
5 There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of .
6 There had n't been any cracks .
7 His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies .
8 ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood .
9 There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success .
10 Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry .
11 The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ .
12 There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance .
13 The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , .
14 The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees .
15 For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland .
16 Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant .
17 Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals .
18 She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival .
19 If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years .
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