Example sentences of "had [not/n't] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 2 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 3 | Mrs Gotobed was downstairs in a room Carrie had not been into before ; a light , pretty drawing-room , all gilt chairs and mirrors . |
| 4 | Later Dr Cox , from Colden Common , Hants , stressed that his trial had not been about ‘ the general issue of euthanasia ’ . |
| 5 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 6 | Margaret had not been through anything like the rebellion her sister had known , but they both shared a great sense of elation . |
| 7 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 8 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 9 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 10 | Justicz commented on Oxford 's ‘ very nice ’ rhythm and felt the Dark Blues had been able to capitalise whenever Cambridge had not been at their best . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 12 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 13 | Even if Plácido Domingo had not moved Juan Pons , playing the mean and moody Sheriff of Puccini 's La Fanciulla del West , to barely-suppressed tears in the famous Act 3 aria , ‘ Ch'ella mi creda ’ — if , in other words , Domingo had not been at his committed best , which is quite something — the Scala audience would no doubt have roared its approval all the same . |
| 14 | He was convinced the man had not been at the army camp demonstration on the day MacQuillan died . |
| 15 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 16 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 17 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 18 | Minter had not been at Breakspear , exactly or even approximately contemporary with Clare Mallender . |
| 19 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 20 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 21 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 22 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 23 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 24 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 25 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 26 | Horowitz drove back to Freiburg in a philosophical mood — the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes had not been on the list . |
| 27 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 28 | He explained that although the lad had not been on the mainline before , he was a good , reliable and sensible lad . |
| 29 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 30 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |