Example sentences of "had not been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
| 2 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 3 | The pants , she said , had not been part of the deal . |
| 4 | Although evidence given in earlier hearings had suggested that on at least one occasion Ministry of the Interior " reserve funds " had been used for GAL-related activities , the trial judges in their 170-page verdict concluded that the group had not been part of " the apparatus of the state " . |
| 5 | What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ? |
| 6 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
| 7 | The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason . |
| 8 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 9 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 10 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 11 | Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I. |
| 12 | Many of these had not been Christians for very long . |
| 13 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 14 | Again the point was made that the government of the Republic had not been party to any agreement regarding the status of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] . |
| 16 | There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas . |
| 17 | At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward . |
| 18 | For one thing , there had not been time for the more remotely-seated lords to arrive , if indeed many of them heeded the summons ; and the Balliol supporters , of course , remained absent . |