Example sentences of "had not be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field had not been ploughed for at least 80 years ( probably not for more than 150 years ) and there is no record of fertilizer or herbicide ever having been applied . |
| 2 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 3 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 4 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 5 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 6 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 7 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 8 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 9 | Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that |
| 10 | Under the previous system , works whose value had not been declared for taxation purposes were subject to taxation on the full sale price which was a severe disincentive to sellers . |
| 11 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 12 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 13 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 14 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 15 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 16 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 17 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 18 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 19 | A heating expert said the boiler had not been serviced for twenty five years , and the flue was blocked . |
| 20 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |
| 21 | Up to now , the manufacturers had not been accounting for dismantling personal computers in their construction , so it 's still a very difficult process . |
| 22 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 23 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 24 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 25 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 26 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 27 | Head circumference had not been recorded for 137 men , but this could be estimated from the two head diameters by using the regression equation derived from the 1042 records which included the circumference and both diameters . |
| 28 | In some places the books had not been touched for hundreds of years and could hardly be seen for dust . |
| 29 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 30 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |