Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOX : There is something in thy person that attracts everyone 's notice , but if a sack had not been a profane thing it would have become thee almost as well . |
| 2 | If the calls of the CBI and others for such a cut had not been so loud , the pound would probably have been stronger still , making it possible to cut rates even sooner , and by more . |
| 3 | Second , other employees who had gone to the canteen on commencing a shift had not been dismissed and none of them knew that they risked that penalty . |
| 4 | Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth . |
| 5 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 6 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 7 | The cost of implementing such a strategy had not been estimated , but studies by the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank estimated that US$270,000 million would have to be invested worldwide to introduce sustainable tropical timber management . |
| 8 | Three former stations , Teignmouth in Devon , Tobermory on Mull and Courttown in the Irish Republic , were reinstated following period when a lifeboat had not been required . |
| 9 | The Congress ( I ) claim to form a government headed by V. Vaithilingam was accepted by the Lieutenant-Governor , Har Swarup Singh , on June 22 but a government had not been formed as of early July . |
| 10 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 11 | I vividly remember the occasion when a box had not been properly secured — when poor Katy opened the bathroom door she was greeted by a scene which must have been reminiscent of the Hitchcock film The Birds with thrushes and feathers flying everywhere ! |
| 12 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 13 | Barroso disclosed that an agenda and timetable for talks had been drawn up , but that a ceasefire had not been discussed . |
| 14 | Her plea of a headache had not been entirely false . |
| 15 | The number of community psychiatric nurses in Newham was less than half that of Ipswich , and the hospital social workers did not intervene in cases where a client had not been an inpatient . |