Example sentences of "had not been [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the income which arose in year 1 had not been charged at the time when the payment was made in year 3 to the beneficiary , that relieving provision would not be applicable and it would appear that the tax charge would take place in year 3 . |
| 2 | Asked by Mr Norman if his reasoning for that decision had not been noted at the time , he replied : ‘ My scribbles were not entirely consistent in quantity or meaning . |
| 3 | Regret theory has several surprising predictions that had not been tested at the time the theory was first presented : for example , it predicts that individuals ' choices may ‘ cycle ’ ( eg A is chosen in preference to B , B in preference to C and C in preference to A ) . |
| 4 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 5 | The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution . |
| 6 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 7 | Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father . |
| 8 | Indeed , this had not gone unnoticed by those on the governing body as one person remarked that she ‘ had the clenched fist on the side of the car ’ although this had not been mentioned at the interview . |
| 9 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |