Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] not [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As she changed the water in her washing-up bowl , the feeling of a pattern more securely possessed her , the feeling of events happening and being linked , the feeling that her wakeful nights and her edginess over her lost child had not been without an outcome . |
| 3 | A report from a social worker revealed the girl had not been to school since November last year . |
| 4 | He explained that although the lad had not been on the mainline before , he was a good , reliable and sensible lad . |
| 5 | A representative of the 15-member Commonwealth observer group said that the elections had been free and fair , although the process had not been without incident and there were imperfections in the electoral lists . |
| 6 | Only about one-third of the state sector secondary school teachers questioned by the University of Sheffield team for the Elton Committee reported that in their school corporal punishment had not been in use prior to 1987 when it became illegal . |
| 7 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |
| 8 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 9 | He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 11 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 12 | Maybe , as William strongly suspected , this first communion between the rat and the marmot had not been without violence and rattus rattus , being the little fucker he was , had savagely copulated with the small , pretty , squirrel-like creature — and then torn her throat out . |
| 13 | In one recent group one woman had not been in a lift for twenty years . |
| 14 | The big scoreboard behind the stands showed that the professional side of the tournament had not been without its drama . |
| 15 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 16 | Yet most of the content of this crisis had passed Poland by : the Polish state had not been in existence . |
| 17 | He was convinced the man had not been at the army camp demonstration on the day MacQuillan died . |
| 18 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 19 | She revealed how , since that fateful day , her life had not been worth living … the loneliness , the bitter regrets and the lingering shame that rose above all else . |
| 20 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 21 | Of course the Deputy Under Secretary had not been beyond the reach of Century House while in Mombasa . |
| 22 | Her sudden , almost overnight , success had not been without its problems however . |
| 23 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 24 | This part had not been in the script . |
| 25 | Since then his heart had not been in the horse vaulting or the running on the spot . |
| 26 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 27 | Later Dr Cox , from Colden Common , Hants , stressed that his trial had not been about ‘ the general issue of euthanasia ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 29 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 30 | But just think if the family had not been in touch with the Bengali Action Group or with any community workers , what sort of state of fear they 'd live in . |