Example sentences of "had [not/n't] been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 2 | The woman , in her sixties from England , had not been named last night . |
| 3 | I saw now exactly why , when General Francis 's name came up , Daisy bemoaned the fact that she had not been born twenty years earlier . |
| 4 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 5 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 6 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 7 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 8 | I was not given the run of the pavillon and I took it that , since I had not been extended this facility , I was not welcome to it . |
| 9 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 10 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 11 | Ukraine participated in a non-voting capacity , since its head of delegation had not been given plenary powers other than to sign agreements on co-operation in meteorology , environmental protection , and electricity production ( Ukraine did not in fact sign these agreements ) . |
| 12 | She had not been given any choice in the matter . |
| 13 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 14 | The 22-year-old , in a coma since he was injured during the FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield Wednesday ground on April 15 , 1989 , had not been given artificial help to survive since February 22 . |
| 15 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 16 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 17 | In the Federal Court , Beaumont J. held that the Cabinet decision to nominate Stage 2 for listing was void since the owners of the mining rights had not been accorded natural justice before the decision to list the area . |
| 18 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 19 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 22 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 23 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |
| 24 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 25 | And then they had all hooted with laughter and teased him mercilessly when they 'd arrived , because she had n't been seen all evening and they knew he was deeply disappointed . |
| 26 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 27 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 28 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 29 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 30 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |