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

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1 There was a blaze in her eyes that had not been there before and he could see at once that she would not be at all manageable .
2 But subjects that experienced a reminder treatment ( unsignalled foot-shocks given in a different apparatus ) between the conditioning trials and the test session showed almost as much conditioned responding as control subjects that had not been pre-exposed to the noise .
3 Mr Wormwood 's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver , the colour this time of a tightrope-walker 's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season .
4 The links between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday .
5 THE LINKS between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday .
6 There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand .
7 He was writing it afresh , there and then , word for word , but the words , although they were identical to the familiar text , were nevertheless new words , words that had not been made before .
8 The most popular legend concerning true cheesemaking is that of a herdsman who put fresh milk into an animal 's stomach pouch that had not been cleaned and sterilised and discovered that the action of the remaining rennet reacted with the milk to form a sweet cheese , as opposed to the known acid variety .
9 Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow .
10 ( 2 ) For purposes of this section " liability " means legally enforceable liability ; and subsection ( 1 ) shall not apply in relation to a liability that had not been accepted or established to pay compensation for a wrongful act or omission .
11 Galileo was even prepared to give the Bible jurisdiction over scientific hypotheses that had not been rigorously demonstrated .
12 It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation .
13 Sometimes on progresses through the country she would depart from her official schedule and visit some village that had not been sanitized in advance .
14 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 .
15 And a working group on constitutional reform , established by the Supreme Soviet in late 1988 , began — at least in its reported meetings — to develop the notion of ‘ republican precedence ’ , by which the union republics should have full authority over all matters that had not been specifically transferred to the USSR government .
16 The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before .
17 Furthermore , in 1851 the Court of Common Pleas held in Grant v. Norway that a master who signed a bill of lading for twelve bales of silk that had not been shipped had no authority to issue such a bill and thus the bill was unenforceable .
18 The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century .
19 Hamilton had the brilliance to see the simple point that had not been elaborated before ; namely that overall fitness is the sum of fitness owing to selfish behaviour plus fitness owing to altruistic behaviour to relatives .
20 The Polytechnic was in the process of amalgamating with the College , and in a discussion in the Director 's office the College Principal was obviously shocked to hear things said by the Director that had not been previously shared with him .
21 Held , allowing the appeal and the cross-appeal , that under the terms of the mortgage and other deeds the defendants were entitled to recover their actual costs , charges and expenses except for any costs that had not been reasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount ; that both litigation and non-litigation costs could be referred to a taxing for quantification ; that the defendants were contractually entitled to payment on an indemnity basis as defined by R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) ; that the court 's discretion as to the basis of taxation of a mortgagee 's costs , charges and expenses should normally be exercised so as to correspond with the contractual entitlement ; and that , accordingly , the master had power to order that the contractual costs , charges and expenses and the costs incurred in the litigation be taxed on an indemnity basis including those costs ordered to be taxed on a standard basis ( post , pp. 735E–F , 736B–C , 737E–F , 739A–C , 741H — 742D , E–H ) .
22 In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before .
23 Regret theory has several surprising predictions that had not been tested at the time the theory was first presented : for example , it predicts that individuals ' choices may ‘ cycle ’ ( eg A is chosen in preference to B , B in preference to C and C in preference to A ) .
24 Either of these could match the new borders or blinds or undercurtains , perhaps bringing out a colour that had not been emphasized before .
25 His letter from Houston had been an update , filling in a range of details that had not been capable of being fitted into coded messages to and from Houston in the form of price-lists of market produce .
26 It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week .
27 It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week .
28 He had lain wakeful beside Anna in the bed that had not been quite wide enough for twenty years and felt himself to be all at once boiling with misery and quite immobilized by it .
29 We requested smears that had not been initially examined at our cytology department for review , and our cytologist 's readings were definitive .
30 If he had n't been so puffed up with conceit , the buffalo that had not been noticed by the Moi might now be basking contentedly in the shallows of the river .
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