Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 2 | The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ . |
| 3 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 4 | a radiograph of the pieces revealed that it had not been made from just one piece of iron , but from many welded together . |
| 5 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 6 | This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful . |
| 7 | The JAC in Leeds admitted that it had not been able to counter the numbers going into dead-end jobs , and a similar admission was made by the Plymouth authorities . |
| 8 | A spokesman for ICI , Britain 's giant chemical conglomerate which is active in many fields of genetic engineering , told New Scientist that it had not been approached . |
| 9 | The strike was continued for another four days , partly to show that it had not been panicked by the killings into throwing up its responsibilities and partly to ensure that persons on unemployment insurance and social benefits received payment for a full week . |
| 10 | Misys Plc , which said in January that it was in talks that could lead to it acquiring Burns Anderson Independent Network Plc ( CI No 2,081 ) , said yesterday that it had not been able to agree terms for the acquisition and that negotiations had therefore been terminated . |
| 11 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 12 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 13 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 14 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 15 | The member States were deemed to be at one with the Organisation and the Tribunal concluded that it had not been their intention to disappear behind its constitution . |
| 16 | The 12 year old who started an account of a woodwork project by writing " When I made it I used glue and a tenon saw " failed to appreciate that it had not been established textually . |
| 17 | In R. ( O'Brien ) v. Military Governor , N.D. U. Internment Camp ( 1924 ) a decision of the old Irish Court of Appeal , a Public Safety ( Emergency Powers ) Act was declared invalid on the ground that it had not been passed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the constitution . |
| 18 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 19 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 20 | 15–4 The body of Malcolm MacKinnon was found near Schouler on Daill farm and it was remarkable that it had not been found sooner as it was lying in the vicinity of a well from which water was being drawn daily . |
| 21 | Raynor paused , looking down into the half-closed eyes , and saw Grainne smile , and saw , as well , that despite her apparent tranquillity , she had been nervous , and that it had not been easy for her to come to his room . |
| 22 | If the Government adhere to their position , the decision on the bids would be taken not after due consideration and detailed examination but at the outset by telling one bid that it had not been selected to receive the £48,750 assistance . |
| 23 | The copper anklet was probably the only thing of value she had possessed , and it was curious that it had not been stolen , for all metal was valuable in the Black Land . |
| 24 | She wrinkled her nose in irritation , wishing that her father had had the foresight to warn her that it had not been fully completed , instead of waving her on her way with a cheery remark about how the change would do her good . |
| 25 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 26 | In mid-July , in response to Uruguayan concerns that it had not been invited to participate in the talks , the Foreign Minister Domingo Cavallo stressed that Uruguay was welcome to participate in future discussions and was not excluded from the common market [ for previous Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina trilateral trade accords see pp. 35309 ; 36273 ] . |
| 27 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 28 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 29 | The most important recent decision , Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , was first published outside LEXIS eighteen months after the judgment following a complaint from the judge in Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 that it had not been reported . |
| 30 | One of the authors , John Perry , director of the Institute of Housing , said yesterday that it had not been possible to calculate a Scottish figure because of differences in the financial systems . |