Example sentences of "have not [be] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ( d ) First registration of title Although the property may be in an area subject to compulsory registration of title , no application for registration is required when the property is conveyed following a court order as the conveyance has not been one following sale ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s123 ) .
2 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
3 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
4 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
5 Family Hold Back has not been my motto .
6 Unionists are also taken aback but Fermanagh-South Tyrone MP Ken Maginnis said : ‘ It has not been my personal experience that the RUC Special Branch gambles with the lives of potential IRA victims .
7 Mr Rutter added : ‘ I can not understand why anybody would burgle The Redoubt because ever since our last burglary there has not been anything of value kept here . ’
8 The lover 's certainty that his love was the source of everything good and worthwhile in his life — the belief which lay behind the radiantly lyrical love poems of Bernard de Ventadour , some of which were composed at the court of Henry II and Eleanor — was a belief which gave to woman , as man 's partner and sometimes , in this context at least , the dominant partner , a place at the heart of things which had not been hers before .
9 Heffer wrote for the two Telegraphs and had not been himself since Mrs Thatcher had been sent packing .
10 The Dawn of Dreams had not been her most glamorous role — to play the central role of a disturbed adolescent Jo had gained 20lb and spent hours creating the greyish , pasty complexion of a kid raised in institutions .
11 She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night .
12 The wench could not talk thus if she had not been her master 's bedfellow .
13 There was an angry moan as she did so and a pain in her chest , which made her wonder whether the moan had not been her own .
14 It had not been her intention in any way to pry .
15 It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean .
16 It had not been her head which Ghost of the Tree had worked on to his skull-staff the night before .
17 It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment .
18 The member States were deemed to be at one with the Organisation and the Tribunal concluded that it had not been their intention to disappear behind its constitution .
19 And last night Trevor Bush , Loganair 's technical chief executive , said yesterday had not been their best day .
20 And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either .
21 In fact there had not been one unified element to the train which followed Artai 's progress but several , and those which were the designated efforts of individual districts of the city , or of the guilds , now moved away to become the driving force behind a carnival which ruled every street .
22 In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting .
23 That of course had not been his prime reason for going to Rhodes .
24 Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards .
25 He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so .
26 By all accounts , or at least by his wife 's , that had not been his first concern .
27 However , this had not been his original intention .
28 Yet Gaily knew flattery and this had not been it .
29 She had done acid once , at college , and it had not been anything like this evening 's entertainment .
30 There had not been anything to match the Westland affair as an example of competitive leaking since the ‘ display of histrionic talents ’ , as Edmund Dell put it , 64 which accompanied Callaghan 's Cabinets on the terms of a loan from the International Monetary Fund .
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