Example sentences of "had been no " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no mention of the individual 's property rights in the 1922 constitution . |
| 2 | ( There had been no plan to illustrate the book , but Leonard talked his friend and fellow-student Freda Guttman into it , and so the book appeared with five designs from her hand ) . |
| 3 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 4 | It had not occurred to us that this ranging survey of the idioms of English and incidentally French verse had been no more than a ‘ prologue ’ — and to what , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 5 | Mr Sawyer , chairman of the party 's home policy committee which co-ordinated the work of the seven policy review groups , insisted there had been no sacrifice of principles . |
| 6 | Asked whether he had screened the Yugoslavs before they were sent back , he said there had been no requirement under the order . |
| 7 | There had been no suggestion from the company 's bankers or major institutional shareholders to date that he should do so . |
| 8 | But there had been no sign since Tiananmen Square that the Chinese had been in the least influenced by the disapproval of the West . |
| 9 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 10 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 11 | There had been no agreement on the main issues of contention , but ( aside from Canada ) the Empire was with Britain , he said . |
| 12 | She had found a sweet lover where there had been no love . |
| 13 | In Tanzania in the early 1980s , 90 per cent of agricultural production in the resettled villages was still geared to subsistence consumption and there had been no long-term increase in the productivity of the farmers involved . |
| 14 | There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed . |
| 15 | Suppose there had been no mammoth hi-jacking at the end of May ? |
| 16 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 17 | Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically . |
| 18 | Some of the farms put under restrictions yesterday have already supplied milk for public consumption , but officials were confident there had been no threat to health . |
| 19 | Harvey said later that he thought the decision had been harsh and added that there had been no warning given about time-wasting before the game , although he accepted that Tyson could have mentioned it to the players during the match , a fact confirmed by the referee as he left the ground . |
| 20 | Kingfisher says that even if there had been no leak , the bid would probably have been launched this week . |
| 21 | His department later confirmed that there had been no competitive tendering and that no companies apart from EDS , nor the department itself , had been invited to bid . |
| 22 | Hitherto there had been no provision for the mentally afflicted poor ; only licensed ‘ mad houses , , run on a private basis , which could only be used by those whose relations could afford them . |
| 23 | Up to this point it had been fine because there had been no money . |
| 24 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 25 | I repeated that I saw ‘ no case for a further round of Beeching cuts ’ and that there had been no secret talks or plans . |
| 26 | There had been no sense of impending crisis and few newspapers were seriously featuring the Falklands situation prior to the invasion . |
| 27 | Between her and Christopher there had been no euphoria to fade into the light of common day . |
| 28 | There had been no mad paroxysm of love , with the inevitable bathos . |
| 29 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
| 30 | Since her Dad ran off , there had been no one like that . |