Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’ |
| 2 | In 1991 there were two new questions which had not been asked in previous Censuses ; one on limiting long-term illness and the other on ethnic origin . |
| 3 | By the end of the text the reader feels sympathetic towards Lady Macbeth because she realises that no good will emerge where ambition had not been achieved by good fortune and ‘ borrowed robes ’ all too often do n't fit . |
| 4 | Makarenko made the important deduction that as the theories discarded at the Revolution had not been replaced by precise new ones , the abstract and muddled notions of officials like the education inspector were no substitute for practical self-help . |
| 5 | The Collector felt no confidence at all that her child had not been made in vain . |
| 6 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 7 | The secondary technical schools anticipated in 1944 had not been created in significant numbers , and the modern schools were required to fill the gap . |
| 8 | The resistance of Ulster had not been created by British Unionists and could hardly be said to depend on them , but the knowledge of support was certainly useful to Carson and Craig in giving their plans for rebellion an official look . |
| 9 | He said that his television broadcast had not been written under physical pressure but " under the constraints of the situation " . |
| 10 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 11 | This was a significant discovery in that fusion had not been seen in toroidal discharges before . |
| 12 | He had not been seen in public since 29 December , an indication that he was in trouble . |
| 13 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 14 | ( Talks in 1973 which produced the short-lived Sunningdale agreement had not been attended by hard-line unionists — see pp. 26301-04 . ) |
| 15 | Perhaps Auntie Flo had not been chosen at random . |
| 16 | She left Alexandra in no doubt that whatever services Carlo might have performed on Gina 's behalf , they had not been confined to public relations but had included private ones as well . |
| 17 | The letter expressed the CPSU 's ‘ deep anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland ’ , regretted that the necessary measures had not been taken against domestic anti-Soviet and anti-socialist forces , and called upon the Polish party to ‘ reverse the course of events and channel them in the right direction ’ . |
| 18 | When enforcement was sought in Germany , the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf , holding itself required to examine the matter for itself under Article 27(2) of the Brussels Convention , held that service had not been effected in sufficient time to allow the defendant to make a defence . |
| 19 | Another two tonnes of soot could have been avoided if diesel engines had not been classed as low-polluting vehicles and been exempt from the traffic ban . |
| 20 | One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done . |
| 21 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
| 22 | For Tolkien , whose literary pilgrimage was to be so lonely , and whose return to Oxford had not been marked by great domestic happiness , there was something very cheering in the company of this clever , widely read , humorous and spontaneously affectionate Irishman . |
| 23 | Turbine engines had not been introduced into regular airline use when I joined the Branch ; also one 's practical application of aerodynamics had to be radically modified to cope with the characteristics of high speed flight with swept wings and all the associated developments that went with this revolution in flying . |
| 24 | This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations . |
| 25 | The present situation had not been envisaged by early British socialist thinkers ( see Normanton , 1980 , p. 181 ) . |
| 26 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 27 | And it was even more important that he should see , also , that she had n't been deflected by persuasive words and looks , kisses that seemed to draw her soul from her body . |
| 28 | But the troops were forced onto the defensive when they were caught by the fire of several crack Panzer regiments , which had n't been spotted by Allied intelligence . |