Example sentences of "there [vb past] [not/n't] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 2 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 3 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 4 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 5 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 6 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 7 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 8 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |
| 9 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 10 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd have killed her if there had n't been any blood . |
| 12 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 13 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 14 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 15 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 16 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 17 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 18 | There had not been many there before him , reading the file on Michael Holly . |
| 19 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 20 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 21 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 22 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |
| 23 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 24 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 25 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 26 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 27 | Indeed , in the eleven days since , there had not been another . |