Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [not/n't] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What did you do that for ? ’ said Bravd , who had n't been close enough to hear the words . |
| 2 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 3 | The other time , he remembered , it was his father who had n't been able to eat . |
| 4 | If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either . |
| 5 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 6 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 7 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 8 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 9 | Our first assumption , that non-respondents would tend to be teachers who had not been involved in a review , proved to be unfounded . |
| 10 | I 'm not , I 'm not doing that , what I 'm challenging is the consortiums decision to award the contract to a company who had not been involved in that particular area as opposed to a company that had . |
| 11 | Wark , who had not been shy of venturing upfield for corners and free-kicks , struck the penalty cleanly enough , but against the crossbar . |
| 12 | On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial . |
| 13 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 14 | These were leaders who had not been subject to party screening or peer review and had succeeded almost exclusively on the strength of their appeal to mass electorates . |
| 15 | Conducted by a psychiatrist and an orthopaedic surgeon , the study looked at nearly 200 road accident victims aged between 18 and 70 with multiple injuries or whiplash neck injury who had not been unconscious . |
| 16 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 17 | Other party leaders who had not been privy to the " election " advised Sonia against accepting the post . |
| 18 | Naseby , who had not been aware of making a joke , glared at Auguste . |
| 19 | Even he , however , confessed that it was difficult to control men who had not been accustomed to organization , whose " idea was that once a union was formed everything should be put right in a few hours " . |
| 20 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |