Example sentences of "had not been [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had not been implying that they , the comrades at No. 43 Old Mill Road , had unwittingly come closer to great events , then what did she mean ? |
| 2 | However , it had not been realised that we process speech as much by our expectations as by our sensations : it is easy for us to hear the same acoustic signal as ‘ It 's easy to recognise speech ’ or ‘ It 's easy to wreck a nice beach ’ according to context . |
| 3 | On appeal following conviction it was submitted , inter alia , that he should have been informed of the calls from the solicitor , and given a choice as to whether he wanted one or not , particularly as he had not been advised that the authority of the custody officer for the delayed notification to his son had been lifted ( see Jones ( Sally ) February 2 , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | The allegations were serious , and it had not been supposed that the children would be allowed home with no further action . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | Stirling had not been told that such a unit was operating in the target area , despite the fact that its presence might stir up the enemy . |
| 8 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 9 | It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion . |
| 10 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 11 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 12 | A Mr E. Friend complained ( as did Mr Tombs ) that he had not been informed that his application was unsuccessful . |
| 13 | As it was , he did n't understand that he had to stand still , because he had n't been taught that this was required . |