Example sentences of "[noun sg] had not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The passenger death toll had not been finalized as young children did not need to be registered . |
| 7 | Nevertheless for Minton , as for others , it remained a meeting place where friends could always be found and its usefulness had not been superseded . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dreams for the future had not been abandoned , for Dave hoped to move into the management side at work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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) . |
| 12 | First , I would still have had the belief even if the car had not been there . |
| 13 | The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the stranger had not been there , he would have given them an account of what had happened . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But previous experience with the collection of betterment had not been encouraging . |
| 25 | Even ten years ago the notion of the nurse as the patient 's advocate had not been formally recognised , and the stress involved in being unable to act properly in the patient 's defence was almost enough to persuade me to give up altogether . |
| 26 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 27 | Since there was little practical guidance available in the literature and most previous research had not been carried out under normal classroom conditions , we decided to enlist the help of a number of experienced teachers who were using ‘ collaborative approaches successfully . |
| 28 | the potential for the wiring fault had not been identified ( hazard identification ) |
| 29 | After the Jennetts incident , John Lawrence , who had written the critical report on the Authority 's attitude , declared his disappointment that increased safety and greater openness had not been implemented since the Camelford incident . |
| 30 | The count upon which he was acquitted , that he had allegedly bought crack cocaine from a Washington dealer on Sept. 7 , was refuted by defence witnesses who testified that the mayor had not been in the vicinity of the alleged transaction on the day in question . |