Example sentences of "[conj] there had [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 2 | She meant to explain that there had n't been room in their cases but before she could speak Miss Evans turned bright red and said quickly , ‘ Oh , I 'm so sorry , how silly of me , why should you ? |
| 3 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 4 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 5 | ‘ You implied to Belinda that there had n't been anyone in your life since Jennifer , ’ said Rachel as she led him into her kitchen . |
| 6 | Lord Cameron came to the conclusion that there had not been a baton charge in Duke Street but that many policemen had drawn their batons individually and when ordered to disperse the march , had then used them indiscriminately . |
| 7 | The Court of first instance decided that there had not been unfairly prejudicial conduct . |
| 8 | We were convinced we had witnessed a terrible accident and hurried to the police station at Lochcarron to report the incident , there to be reassured that there had not been a crash , and gently rebuked for assuming there had been . |
| 9 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 10 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 11 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 12 | The judgment for the majority in the Court of Appeal ( Stuart Smith LJ dissenting ) was given by Nourse LJ who held that there had not been a sale " by " description . |
| 13 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 14 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 15 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 16 | He had never found a suitable gift , and there had n't been an Easter that year , the only gift many families had received had been blood and fire . |
| 17 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
| 18 | ‘ If there had n't been , I 'd have come back . |
| 19 | ‘ If there had n't been a waiting list , Anne would n't be here today . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 21 | Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that . |
| 22 | ’ Even if there had n't been the war , I would never have gone back . |
| 23 | I guess if there had n't been the war Arnie would be a professor at some small college writing monographs on how many times Hamlet called Ophelia ‘ a dumb broad ’ . ’ |
| 24 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |
| 25 | If there had n't been the publicity , then the malpractice would never have come to light . |
| 26 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 27 | The appointment of Mr Stevens was a classic case of promoting a man beyond his level of competence and could not have happened if there had not been deep distrust in official circles of people who know what they are talking about . |
| 28 | Who knows how long that fly might have lived if there had not been a battered ruler lying to hand . |
| 29 | But there had n't been a whisper about it . |
| 30 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |