Example sentences of "they [vb past] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
| 2 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 3 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 4 | That they did not was because they had achieved only conservation of energy in the sense that the amount released exceeded that contained in the mass of a muon . |
| 5 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 6 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | He also had a high opinion of British travellers and officials but felt that they were not dedicated , or good examples of Christian virtues ; they had not been chosen for their moral worth and were likely to be judged by Muslims in that light . |
| 8 | They had not been given details of the legislation and so were unable to counter opposition scaremongering . |
| 9 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 10 | When forty-two railway-workers who defected from Syzran' station were put on trial , their sentence was alleviated because they had not been paid . |
| 11 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 12 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 13 | The Africanists , whose ideological sympathies lie with the PAC , decided not to attend , asserting they had not been invited to serve on the convening committee . |
| 14 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 15 | And no , they had not been expecting to see her that weekend , though with Giles away she had said she might come on the Sunday . |
| 16 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 17 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 18 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 19 | It was clearly foreseen , though not stated , that these would be drawn mainly from the workhouses , either because the relatives of the dead could not pay for interment , or because they had not been notified of death . |
| 20 | Above all , from her point of view , they had not been converted from their fierce and dangerous gods to the love and freedom that the Holy Catholic Church was supposed to confer . |
| 21 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 22 | They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night ! |
| 23 | Parliament granted a tax of a sixteenth , and in return it was promised that the perambulations of Edward I should be confirmed , and that new perambulations should be made before Christmas in the forests where they had not been made in the previous reign . |
| 24 | In 1347 he promised that the grievances of the Commons should be remedied by Chancery writs against Forest officers , but next year ‘ the commons of the county of Surrey and of other counties ’ complained that although they had sued for a writ in the Chancery , they had not been able to obtain the promised remedy . |
| 25 | He claimed the South African federation were not legitimately entitled to conduct the testing , and they had not been conducted according to DLV rules . |
| 26 | Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ? |
| 27 | They had not been spotted after all . |
| 28 | What guarantee was there that they had not been stolen ? |
| 29 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
| 30 | They had not been alone together since Durkin had gone to Belfast six months ago . |