Example sentences of "had not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 2 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 5 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 6 | Had not been ready to feel ? ) |
| 7 | He had not been impaled , but the spike had been driven far upwards from near his throat before his body had slumped clear . |
| 8 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 10 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 11 | I worried all night , lest the listing in the local paper and in the Order of St John country handbook had not been enough . |
| 12 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 13 | Lucy was her immaculate self at work in the morning ; they had a drink in the pub , and it was as if that evening , the story , the kiss , the flowers , had not been . |
| 14 | For years it had not been worked . |
| 15 | He had not been seen since Castle Menzies . |
| 16 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 17 | They themselves had not been so . |
| 18 | Sedition , mobbing , rioting ( so ‘ sedition ’ had not been dropped ) . |
| 19 | The word had not been there when she left that morning . |
| 20 | In the particular case in question , the complainant 's father had not been offered a bed by the health authority , although he was assessed as needing nursing care . |
| 21 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 22 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 23 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 24 | However if this way of jumping from two feet to two feet had not been combined with well picked-up pas de bourrée piqués and relevés retirés as well as extremely accurate , quick ports de bras with straighter and more angled than rounded arms , they would have seemed out of place . |
| 25 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 26 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
| 27 | The 1975 definition was an exceptionally pure version that had not been current previously and only lasted a year or two . |
| 28 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 29 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 30 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |