Example sentences of "had not [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could the Secretary of State dismiss so lightly and in advance a report which had not even been written at that date ? |
| 2 | He acknowledged now that the majority of people , the great brown mass of the fieldworkers , had not even been noticed by the visionary pharaoh he had followed with such devotion , let alone been affected by his thinking . |
| 3 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 4 | Perhaps it had not even been reported to them . |
| 5 | Journalists who telephoned the divisional police were told bluntly that the men had not even been interviewed at the time the army spokesman had made his statement . |
| 6 | Vokins , branded indelibly as one of the servants , had not even been considered for an invitation . |
| 7 | It was clear Mr Junejo had not even been told in advance . |
| 8 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
| 9 | He said that the words ‘ humanitarian grounds ’ had not even been mentioned in the government plan for the future of SAR . |
| 10 | The satin was perfect , had not even been removed from its muslin wrappers . |
| 11 | Most had not previously been covered by a trade union unemployment scheme . |
| 12 | Lord Scarman referred to violence and disorder ‘ the like of which had not previously been seen in this century in Britain ’ , while one Conservative MP summed up this orthodox reaction in a parliamentary debate ( on 13 April 1981 ) when he spoke of the riots as ‘ something new and sinister in our long national history ’ . |
| 13 | A change of diagnosis was regarded as one in which manometry resulted in a diagnosis that had not previously been made by other investigations even if clinically suspected — for example a diagnosis of nutcracker oesophagus in a patient presenting with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 14 | Perhaps because she had not previously been living in London , Moira observed precisely what it was that dozens of well-bred young ladies were enthusing over ; the long pin-tucked nightdresses , which no one else was making , to wear as day or evening dresses . |
| 15 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 16 | It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting . |
| 17 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 18 | In this first review the Security Council deemed that " the necessary conditions " had not yet been met for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 19 | ‘ Well ? ’ said William , when they 'd seen it all and adjourned to the pub opposite the station , an old waiting room of a pub that had not yet been converted into a wine bar or a theme park and was consequently empty . |
| 20 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 21 | At a time when artistic merit had not yet been deposed by an overriding demand for commercial impact , he was able to commission an extraordinary range of posters from artists very diverse in style . |
| 22 | He thus took as his starting point three major reforms which had not yet been accepted by the government , namely the establishment of family allowances , the creation of a national health service , and the maintenance by government policy of a ‘ high and stable level ’ of employment . |
| 23 | The Company 's own lettering had not yet been applied to the rocker panels . |
| 24 | A good deal had not yet been mapped by anybody ; not merely the interior of Africa , but parts of the western USA . |
| 25 | He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise . |
| 26 | In the early 1780s Viennese society had not yet been drained of financial resources by the long and debilitating war against the Turks , and every aristocrat of note supported some kind of musical establishment , offering a performer such as Mozart plenty of opportunity to give concerts and play at salons . |
| 27 | They had also established contact with 40 men under Major Chisholm who were organising a base for patrols from Memo , but contact had not yet been made with Australia , the powerful radio stations on the mainland 's north coast drowning out signals from Timor . |
| 28 | The committee 's decisions had not yet been ratified by the Security Council [ see also pp. 38886 ; 38788 ] . |
| 29 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 30 | Compulsory primary education had not yet been introduced by the state , and the educational system , from church school to university , was still dominated by the clergy and their middle-class values . |