Example sentences of "[vb past] n't be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there had n't been the publicity , then the malpractice would never have come to light . |
| 2 | Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ . |
| 3 | Yet that had n't been the case . |
| 4 | As her eyes closed in sleep she knew that had n't been the case at all . |
| 5 | Even after bidding a fond farewell to Ben and Carole Meadows , there still had n't been the opportunity to have anything other than a few brief casual words with Ross as he 'd driven them all back to New York . |
| 6 | He was there once more as she turned into the staff car park as again she recalled that ‘ blunt ’ had n't been the word for it ! |
| 7 | That had n't been the intention . |
| 8 | If Gustave had n't been the Bear , he might have been the Camel . |
| 9 | And of course Gramps had never left his wife — because he had never been going to , because he had n't been the father ; but that was obviously the story Marie O'Donnell had put about — the story her family believed . |
| 10 | ’ Even if there had n't been the war , I would never have gone back . |
| 11 | I guess if there had n't been the war Arnie would be a professor at some small college writing monographs on how many times Hamlet called Ophelia ‘ a dumb broad ’ . ’ |
| 12 | * Another arrangement of the sentence which carries a presupposition is the COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONAL : " if X had/had n't been the case , then Y " : If Renaissance dramatists had not known Seneca , they would have been less interested in blood . |