Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew she had not been asked to the service at which her husband 's ashes were placed in the Spencer vault . |
| 2 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 3 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 4 | After her long wakefulness in the night there was no escaping that thought , there was no escaping the suggestion of a pattern : the son who had not been born to her was nevertheless there for her . |
| 5 | ( But there was always the sudden stab at his heart when he reasoned thus , because he had not been born to it ! ) |
| 6 | The Pacific region , Gorbachev observed , had not been militarised to the same extent as Europe . |
| 7 | Its existence had not been revealed to the defence even after specific requests for unused material and , days before the trial , a specific request from a solicitor for three defendants , for a copy of any video tape . |
| 8 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 9 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 10 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 11 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 12 | ‘ We believe that ground-sharing is the only remaining viable option but it is up to the members now , ’ said Daley , who added that Butters had not been invited to the meeting . |
| 13 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 14 | Parliamentary sovereignty had not been ceded to Brussels but merely delegated . |
| 15 | After pressure from Chatichai , however , the Prince announced on April 24 that he would attend the meeting , but warned that it could achieve nothing of value because the invitation had not been extended to representatives of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 16 | What a pity the invitation had not been extended to someone more congenial , such as the ubiquitous Austin Mitchell . |
| 17 | He welcomed the fact that VAT had not been extended to food and that there would be no increase in employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 18 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 19 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 20 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 21 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom , in particular , had an interest in protesting the closure of New Zealand 's ports to ships which had not been confirmed to be neither nuclear armed nor propelled . |
| 23 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 24 | This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) . |
| 25 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 26 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 27 | Dexel , a cellulose acetate moulding compound , manufactured at the Little Heath , Coventry , plant in the UK , had not been exported to America for three years . |
| 28 | Although published some years ago this particular volume from the Ray Society ( which is more usually associated with learned works on natural history ) had not been brought to The Lifeboat 's notice before . |
| 29 | The epidemic had not been confined to Bedford . |
| 30 | His musical talents had not been confined to the School , for he had been first a choirboy at St. Matthew 's in Edgeley , and then organist for the Sunday afternoon services at Barnes ' Convalescent Home in Cheadle , followed by eight years as organist at St. John 's , Heaton Mersey , then 20 years at St. Peter 's , Stockport , and finally 34 years at the Parish Church , St. Mary 's , from which he finally retired in 1944 . |