Example sentences of "[vb past] not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 2 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 3 | I was just wondering , would you have imposed these very high home care charges if you 'd not been forced to by the cuts imposed by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 4 | He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son . |
| 5 | Naturalists of any repute were soon expected to go on expeditions , and those who did not were criticised for their lack of field experience . |
| 6 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 7 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 8 | Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth . |
| 9 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 10 | Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default . |
| 11 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
| 12 | In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’ |
| 13 | The decision of the Supreme Court had not been announced by the end of February . |
| 14 | Again , the vast majority , 77 per cent , felt that their work effort had not been affected by taxation rates ; 13.1 per cent reported disincentive effects and 10.1 per cent reported the opposite . |
| 15 | If such an agreement had not been reached within 18 months , the government of Quebec would hold a referendum on the issue of independence . |
| 16 | They said that the question had not been argued before them and they expressed no opinion on it . |
| 17 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 18 | On Aug. 27 ECOWAS officials met with Ulimo chairman Raleigh Seekie in Freetown , Sierra Leone , to persuade him to commit Ulimo , which had not been represented at earlier talks , to applying the peace accord and surrendering its weapons . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) they were drawn from different library divisions and included two divisions whose schools had not been represented in the Major Project evaluation sample ; |
| 20 | The NCP increased its parliamentary presence from five to six seats , while the GPP , which had not been represented in the previous parliament , won two seats . |
| 21 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 22 | While celebrating the first occasion since the Spanish occupation of 1571 on which foreign troops had not been based in the Philippines , the country 's President , Fidel Ramos , expressed the hope that his country could develop " even stronger ties with the USA " following the withdrawal . |
| 23 | The distinguished archaeologist Professor Lord Renfrew , member of English Heritage 's own Ancient Monuments Advisory committee , revealed that its opinion had not been sought until the third week of November when it finally was called for a formal meeting with Jocelyn Stevens . |
| 24 | A man , it is said , who had seen better days , but whose humour and wit had not been impaired by his fallen fortunes . |
| 25 | The point he seems to have missed is that even if the BBC had not been outbid by Sky for coverage , it was , I think , unlikely that we would have seen ( a ) ball-by-ball-by-ball coverage ( not highlights ) during social hours on the following day . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 28 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 29 | Rain had not been thinking of doing that . |
| 30 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |