Example sentences of "had not be [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 It had not been necessary for him to be there .
2 The taxation in itself , however heavy , could hardly have sparked off so violent a conflagration if conditions had not been appropriate for it .
3 They were in Bill 's roomy Mercedes , and Bill would follow later in Tom 's own sports car , which had not been practical for transporting Faye in complete comfort .
4 It had not been reasonable for the Royal Mail to use their dismissals as an example of enforcement of the new rules .
5 She had a small collection of recipes which had not been suitable for the Mediterranean book and these now became French Country Cooking , published in 1951 .
6 If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract .
7 Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired .
8 Raynor paused , looking down into the half-closed eyes , and saw Grainne smile , and saw , as well , that despite her apparent tranquillity , she had been nervous , and that it had not been easy for her to come to his room .
9 It had not been easy for him to gain readmission .
10 Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time .
11 This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit .
12 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
13 Local professionals had not been responsible for developing a closure programme and there is evidence that rehabilitation was inadequately co-ordinated prior to renewed efforts in the latter part of the demonstration programme .
14 A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths .
15 The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months .
16 Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes .
17 Walesa , who attended this session , said afterwards that in order to prove that the new constitution had not been tailor-made for him he would resign as soon as it came into force .
18 In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind .
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