Example sentences of "[pron] not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In working through it I noticed an error in Step 7 but I not been able to correct it . |
| 2 | Had she not been nervous , Lydia would have been angry , for she had realised that she was , herself , a domestic beast penned in against the night in a frightening little box of night that was all her own , vulnerable to destruction by the very bounds of its definition . |
| 3 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 4 | Have you not been well Jo ? |
| 5 | All your enthusiasm vanishes ; not only have you not been able to ‘ do ’ it , but you are now convinced you are not cut out for mathematics teaching at all and none of your pupils could produce anything like that . |
| 6 | But all this , of course , would have been perfectly normal had there not been other more weighty reasons which disturbed the composure of the hitherto cheerful von Lemke . ’ |
| 7 | But none of these principles could have been exploited or pursued in the ways in which they were had there not been tacit approval and support on the part of the state . |
| 8 | He would have withered inside long ago had there not been this to return to . |
| 9 | It could not have done so had there not been considerable lack of confidence in these other analgesics and the 80 or so non-steroidal anti-inflammatories use to treat arthritis . |
| 10 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |
| 11 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 12 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 13 | The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose . |
| 14 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 15 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 16 | As she worked she could not help contrasting this cheerless room with her own spare room where — had it not been impossible , she told herself quickly — John might now be lying . |
| 17 | The sun looked very bright , but when had it not been bright that summer ? |
| 18 | I returned to London and the Prime Minister made clear what I had always known , that , had he not been stricken down , he would have made a speech on the Saturday at Blackpool saying that he was going on . |
| 19 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 20 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 21 | Before he slipped into sleep had he not been aware of another kind of light , too luminous for words , the radiance of an undefined , perhaps indefinable force , spirit or presence which was greater than or beyond himself ? |
| 22 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |
| 23 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |