Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistant recorder was right to find , as he did , that the allegations of agency set out in the defence had not been made out . |
| 2 | The sympathy had not been long-lived . |
| 3 | This return to the primitive had not been the object of our thoughts . ’ |
| 4 | A heating expert said the boiler had not been serviced for twenty five years , and the flue was blocked . |
| 5 | Mr Macdonald praised Mr Young and Mr Smith for chasing Forman , saying that they had started the trail which led to his arrest , though the money had not been recovered . |
| 6 | The field had not been ploughed for at least 80 years ( probably not for more than 150 years ) and there is no record of fertilizer or herbicide ever having been applied . |
| 7 | While the referendum had not been intended as legally binding by the government , on the strength of the result the Supreme Council on Feb. 11 adopted a constitutional law proclaiming Lithuania " an independent democratic republic " . |
| 8 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 9 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 10 | If the taxpayer had not been assessed ( charged ) in the year the benefit was provided to the beneficiary or in a previous year , he can be assessed on the benefit under TA 1988 , s742(2) ( c ) . |
| 11 | In some children the drug had not been prescribed . |
| 12 | One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted . |
| 13 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 14 | If the coin had not been put in , the bar would not have come out-the first thing was required for the second . |
| 15 | Although the ANC at its national conference earlier in the month had agreed to the phased lifting of sanctions [ see p. 38324 ] , the organization considered that the step was premature since two of the conditions stipulated in the CAAA had not been fully met — first , the political violence in the country was not conducive to a " climate for free political activity " , and second , the ANC disputed the US view that all political prisoners had been released . |
| 16 | Five people with addresses at the building had not been traced . |
| 17 | The final shape of the building had not been determined before the project got under way . |
| 18 | She would never notice that the hair had not been done . |
| 19 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 20 | First , out of all the responses made , only two participants stated that their attendance on the course had not been worthwhile and none said that the course should be discontinued . |
| 21 | If the stranger had not been there , he would have given them an account of what had happened . |
| 22 | In any proceedings it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that , at the date of the alleged contravention , the instrument had not been issued by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office . |
| 23 | Dreams for the future had not been abandoned , for Dave hoped to move into the management side at work . |
| 24 | ‘ If the condition had not been diagnosed might have discovered he was ill when it was too late to do anything , ’ said . |
| 25 | One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work . |
| 26 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 27 | Yet when , after Poindexter 's first day of testimony , the story-line reached its conclusion — no , the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras — viewers fell away . |
| 28 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 29 | First , I would still have had the belief even if the car had not been there . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |