Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [been] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 2 | Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that |
| 3 | Under the previous system , works whose value had not been declared for taxation purposes were subject to taxation on the full sale price which was a severe disincentive to sellers . |
| 4 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 5 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 6 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 7 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 8 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 9 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 10 | In retrospect , indeed , the only criticism was to be that the whole Supergrid had not been designed for conversion to even higher voltages . |
| 11 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 12 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 13 | The only other entrance was a small door to the left of the sanctuary but that was closed with a padlock , rusting with age , and obviously had not been opened for years . |
| 14 | First , that the assistant recorder refused to quash these two counts , notwithstanding that the evidential basis for the allegation that the appellant was engaged in an office or employment in consequence of his false representations was not contained in any of the committal statements , nor in any evidence that had been led before the jury , and that the appellant had not been committed for trial on the offences alleged . |
| 15 | Hence , with the exception of Henry III 's action of December 1259 , liege homage ( in its full and proper form ) had not been performed for Aquitaine prior to the accession of Philip IV in 1285 . |
| 16 | In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the Court of Appeal decided that when a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence for murder had not been recommended for release by the local review committee or the Parole Board , before his next review he was not entitled to be told the reasons for the board 's decision . |
| 17 | The Supreme Court on July 17 refused the request of a pregnant Californian woman to retain possession of a French-made abortion drug , RU-486 , which had not been approved for use in the USA . |
| 18 | Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1 , when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint . |
| 19 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 20 | That receipt would have acted as a bill of sale for the dogs , but without it ‘ Title of Ownership ’ had not been passed for Sophie and Robbie . |
| 21 | I was logging the cache petrol bombs which had n't been inspected for evaporation recently when the phone went . |
| 22 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 23 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 24 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 25 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |