Example sentences of "had not been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward . |
| 2 | During the pilot study , because the local GPs had not been officially informed of the scheme that we were running , it was agreed that patients arriving with a GP letter would be seen by a doctor regardless of whether the complaint or injury fell within my parameters of practice . |
| 3 | Prior to this Minton had not been altogether convinced by Freud 's painting , which he had tended to regard as cranky and a bit naïive . |
| 4 | He had not been altogether honest with the parents regarding the ‘ job situation ’ and considered it prudent to steal silently away to his room , rather than construct explanations for his early return from ‘ work ’ . |
| 5 | In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure . |
| 6 | It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) . |
| 7 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 8 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 9 | A study of the failures at Sicily gave Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott three lines of thought : more training was essential — he had let Nos. 3 and 4 COPPs go out only with reluctance ; more attention was needed in fitting the suits , for which these teams had not been adequately measured ; and thirdly , the life-jackets they wore could not always be inflated in emergencies . |
| 10 | Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful . |
| 11 | In particular , responsibilities had not been adequately defined , and , although the Ships ' Masters had raised concerns , the lack of any appropriate feedback system meant they fell by the wayside . |
| 12 | The report said that many of the chemicals in commercial use today had not been adequately tested for their toxicity . |
| 13 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 14 | Now he thought about it , she had not been here yesterday either ; small chance she would be here tomorrow then , she was avoiding him . |
| 15 | He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him . |
| 16 | The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter . |
| 17 | The master of the horse said later that he had not been overly impressed by this proposal . |
| 18 | She had been a friend of Emily 's ; possibly her only friend ; but if Mr Zamoyski was right , she had not been generally liked . |
| 19 | The other innovation of the early 1940s had not been generally adopted . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England . |
| 21 | The two other new jobs went to people who could hardly be described as outsiders , even though they had not been either Founders or members of the Executive Committee . |
| 22 | Her career in movies from the age of seventeen had not been particularly distinguished . |
| 23 | His life had not been particularly eventful or distinguished . |
| 24 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 25 | Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker . |
| 26 | In the first edition of this book it was argued that levels of controversy over social policies since 1951 had not been particularly high . |
| 27 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 28 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 29 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 30 | The incident was not reported to the authorities for three days because , according to a company spokesman , its size had not been immediately appreciated . |