Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] not be " in BNC.

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1 It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed .
2 86 L.G.R. 660 , the Court of Appeal upheld the grant of an interlocutory injunction restraining a breach of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , notwithstanding an alleged defence invoked by the defendant which had not been disposed of .
3 He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months .
4 Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) .
5 The control lanes show mainly full-length transcripts arising from elongation of the initiated transcription complex which had not been subjected to drug treatment .
6 Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group .
7 It does complain that the tabloids put the fear of tax increases into readers who had not been targeted by Smith 's budget .
8 Of the five potential transplant candidates who had not been referred and who had died , two suffered hepatocellular carcinoma ( diagnosed during routine monitoring in both instances , one with no further imaging , one with imaging showing tumour localised to the liver ) and three had cryptogenic cirrhosis ( one of these three patients was referred to a regional unit but not to a transplant unit ) .
9 As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family .
10 UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games .
11 And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern .
12 In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind .
13 Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it .
14 His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition .
15 Fear infected Americans with a mass hysteria which had not been seen since the Great Crash .
16 The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker .
17 Churchill himself had not been notably concerned with translating the general principle into practical realities .
18 It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult .
19 Scott J said that the distinction lay in whether the parties would have been prepared to allow the matter to be decided on the basis of views which had not been formulated .
20 The director of immigration — who had already received $150 a head for the landing permits which had not been honoured — suggested to the shipping line a fee of $250,000 to help get decree number 937 rescinded .
21 Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule .
22 The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England .
23 He would take the place of the rectory visitor who had died , mad Miss Trimm , and the place of the child which had not been born .
24 In practice these were the two main elements of the development officer 's service ; but there were two additional important elements which had not been fully foreseen : direct support from the development officers to clients and their relatives , and the monitoring of clients ' situations over time .
25 The EC Communications and Telecommunications Ministers agreed on Dec. 8 , 1989 , on a programme to deregulate and liberalize the remaining areas of the EC market in telecommunications which had not been covered by earlier agreements ( see p. 36494 ) , voting to deregulate value-added telephone services by April 1 , 1990 ( with transitional concessions to Spain , Portugal and Greece ) , and to extend the ruling to packet-switching and circuit-switching services by the start of 1993 .
26 Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes .
27 These were the parents who had not been questioned , nor had their house been searched on the morning of 27 February .
28 He had to endure the accusing stares and hostile speeches of those PAC negotiators who had not been arrested .
29 It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school .
30 My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy .
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