Example sentences of "[noun sg] had not be " in BNC.

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1 The horse had n't been mounted before , and it was n't restrained — beyond wearing a bridle and saddle .
2 But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion .
3 In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking .
4 Dismally Mr Berkley haunted the foyer of the Palladium , confirming , from the overheard remarks of his patrons as they left the cinema , that his experiment had not been a success .
5 The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all .
6 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 .
7 In Britton , the actions of the defendant took place late at night , and at some distance from the street , and the court took the view that these facts militated against calling this a distribution , although it said that had there been evidence that the documents were visible to whoever passed by , this might amount to publication , with which the particular defendant had not been charged .
8 The passenger death toll had not been finalized as young children did not need to be registered .
9 Nevertheless for Minton , as for others , it remained a meeting place where friends could always be found and its usefulness had not been superseded .
10 Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels .
11 Dreams for the future had not been abandoned , for Dave hoped to move into the management side at work .
12 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 .
13 But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) .
14 The cashmere shawl had n't been expensive .
15 Silvia had just came through the front door — that car had n't been Guido after all .
16 A senior officer said someone could have died if the car had n't been stopped .
17 First , I would still have had the belief even if the car had not been there .
18 The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs .
19 The Liberals , although the smallest of the three parties , would seem to be the only party whose programme had not been rejected by the electors ; and , as the only party which could co-operate with either of the other two , it would seem to have been put in a particularly strong position by the result of the election .
20 And it was suggested that the closure programme had not been properly thought out , resulting in some homes being singled out for closure which should be kept open .
21 The date of Edward 's coronation had not been announced , partly because the protector wished first to ascertain the reaction of the commonalty to the news that the three prisoners at Pontefract had been executed .
22 In January 1990 the deputy director of the Vietnam State Bank 's foreign department , Nguyen Cong Hai , stated that even though Vietnam had satisfied the IMF 's requirements of reducing inflation and the promulgation of deregulatory reforms , aid had not been forthcoming .
23 They used courts for private cases : divorced wives whose maintenance had not been paid , and heirs who thought they had been cheated , appear in the earliest court records ; they were plaintiffs and claimants whose position was weak in the traditional system .
24 If the stranger had not been there , he would have given them an account of what had happened .
25 One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work .
26 We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work .
27 Dependent conditionals can initially be identified , as they have been here , as typified by the " if " statements we accept in connection with our standard causal beliefs- " If the switch had n't been flipped , the wipers would n't have started " , " Since the switch was flipped , the wipers started " , and the like .
28 This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time .
29 ‘ The whole thing might not have ever got off the ground if Maxi Priest had n't been in the same room as them when I called up .
30 In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the Court of Appeal decided that when a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence for murder had not been recommended for release by the local review committee or the Parole Board , before his next review he was not entitled to be told the reasons for the board 's decision .
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