Example sentences of "[vb past] not [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 2 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 3 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 4 | Immediately she thought guiltily that if Betty had not been such a nice girl she would now remark acidly that a weasel had got it . |
| 5 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 6 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 7 | There had not been many there before him , reading the file on Michael Holly . |
| 8 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 9 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 10 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 11 | She had not been that way before . |
| 12 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 13 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 14 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 15 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 16 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |
| 17 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 18 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 19 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 20 | Indeed , in the eleven days since , there had not been another . |
| 21 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 22 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |