Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [been] [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 2 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 3 | Sometimes on progresses through the country she would depart from her official schedule and visit some village that had not been sanitized in advance . |
| 4 | Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain , until recently it had not been studied in detail . |
| 5 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |
| 6 | On estates where the nobleman had not been engaged in farming , this was a second provision that had the effect of reducing the quantity of land which peasants received . |
| 7 | I had previously caught two individuals of H. tricolor in the Malaise trap but until then it had not been recorded in Britain although it was known from Germany and Japan . |
| 8 | Such figures had not been seen in Germany since the early 1950s and , as elsewhere in Europe , heavy industry was worst hit . |
| 9 | She started a craze for pearl chokers , which had not been seen in years . |
| 10 | Hillingdon 's thesis was that ‘ unexpressed needs ’ , though felt , had not been seen in terms of a library solution , whilst in the case of ‘ unactivated need ’ the library stimulated demand for needs which had not even been felt . |
| 11 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 12 | There was a little shop in my home town that I had liked very much , selling old bits and pieces , books and engravings ; all that was for sale was in a jumble , and the windows had not been cleaned in years . |
| 13 | With her customary curtness , Camilla insisted she had not been told in advance about the announcement . |
| 14 | Most probably , if had not been articulated in times of war these artistic tendencies would have simply been considered marginal . |
| 15 | But even that had not been discussed in detail at home . |
| 16 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 17 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 18 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 19 | In R. ( O'Brien ) v. Military Governor , N.D. U. Internment Camp ( 1924 ) a decision of the old Irish Court of Appeal , a Public Safety ( Emergency Powers ) Act was declared invalid on the ground that it had not been passed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the constitution . |
| 20 | Such excitement had n't been known in Englefield since the Lowrie 's house had burned down . |
| 21 | Hayley Burton was thin and very pale , with small sores around her mouth and nose , greasy fair hair that had n't been washed in weeks , and dark-shadowed pale blue eyes . |
| 22 | Tom picked him up , secretly delighted that he had n't been deserted in affection . |