Example sentences of "had not be [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such oblations to the darkness of the early evenings had not been necessary in previous years when , whatever the season , bright hour and night hour had been dedicated to the service of his flock there were Masses to be said , sick to be visited , meetings to be chaired , burial services to be conducted , bereaved to be comforted . |
| 2 | The development officer said she felt the project had been unable to help much , because of the attitude of the relatives ; the principal carer had not been relieved in any way , and therefore her preference for institutional care ( without the ability to make it happen ) remained . |
| 3 | The Campaign had not been successful in influencing the Trade Unions , possibly because it had been officially characterized as an individual agitation by a few wealthy members . |
| 4 | President George Bush said yesterday that a special US anti-terrorist team had been sent to El Salvador on Tuesday but had not been involved in ending the siege . |
| 5 | Murray Lawrence & Partners , which stressed that Mr Lawrence had not been involved in recent negotiations , said it would receive $20 million next January , another $20.8million in July and $22 million in January 1996 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Poles had fought both for and against Germany , and , partly because their state had not been involved in the war , Poles were ready — unlike the other participants in the war — to fight again , this time for something in which they had a stake . |
| 8 | Besides , TANU members had been involved in the press , while they had not been involved in radio . |
| 9 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 10 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He also emphasised his concern that the FEC was not being included in the process of dissociation and had not been involved in discussions on social and economic issues with Slovenia . |
| 13 | Danov also declared his conviction that Bulgarian agents had not been involved in the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II . |
| 14 | Our first assumption , that non-respondents would tend to be teachers who had not been involved in a review , proved to be unfounded . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 17 | Graham Berry , the SAC 's director of finance , said he had not been involved in the decision . |
| 18 | Such an intention had not been apparent in the earlier government policy of the 1960s . |
| 19 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 20 | Industrial relations had not been good in the health service for many years and not all of that was the fault of the unions . |
| 21 | The McLarens had not been brilliant in practice , and Niki started ninth . |
| 22 | The defence of necessity succeeded in the trespass action as the police had not been negligent in creating the emergency . |
| 23 | The passenger had not been negligent in accepting a lift . |
| 24 | The clarinet , a relatively new instrument , had not been available in Salzburg , but was becoming increasingly common by the 1780s . |
| 25 | With the thought of the malevolent listening bug on the sea-floor dominating every other in his mind , Talbot had sought Lieutenant Denholm 's advice on the question of noise suppression : Denholm had not been half-hearted in his recommendations , with the result that the use of all mechanical devices on the ship , from generators to electric shavers , had been banned . |
| 26 | I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac . |
| 27 | Those who found politics interesting in the campaign but had not been interested in politics a year earlier gave the press high ratings for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 28 | The Kaszubes had not been interested in the fate of Poland at the time of the partitions , and had been reasonably well satisfied by early Prussian rule . |
| 29 | He had not been active in the partnership for some years now , so that the younger inhabitants were more familiar with Doctor Lovell , who had married a Thrush Green girl , and was accepted as a comparatively worthy successor to Doctor Bailey . |
| 30 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |