Example sentences of "had they [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 2 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |
| 3 | Geneticists estimated that had they not selected for mastitis resistance the national incidence would have increased by 1.5% over that period . |
| 4 | But if so , why had they not walked in and asked for it ? |
| 5 | Had they not , after all , watched the movie already ? |
| 6 | Had they not remembered her misery at being in Florence alone , without him , the previous summer ? |
| 7 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 8 | Alderman Glover said that the corporation 's record would have been better had they not handed over some of their schemes ready-made to the NIHT . |
| 9 | In order to make this analysis meaningful we have used the findings reported in Chapter Four in order to make a prediction about whether or not clients would have been at home had they not been supported by the Home Support Project . |
| 10 | Had they not seen in the evening the clouds in the West with seas and lagoons , and in the night the lights of the canoes as they sail on for ever ? |
| 11 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 12 | If the house they referred to , thought Rufus , had been Wyvis Hall , why had they not said so ? |
| 13 | Had they not supported it when it called for the major means of production to be taken over ? |
| 14 | The cushion would have been even greater had they not squandered an early 19–10 lead and clocked up 14 team fouls before the break . |
| 15 | Yet he was also obstinate , even perverse ; his translations would have been less likely to have been seized by the authorities had they not been accompanied by the contentious marginal comments . |
| 16 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 17 | Or had they not known about it ? |
| 18 | Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces . |
| 19 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 20 | The ground got steadily hillier , and here and there rock outcrops stood out which , had they not been so near to towns , he would have been tempted to investigate . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that had they not scored those four goals the game would have been drawn . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) It is not certain on the facts of Dudley and Stephens that the two defendants would have died had they not killed the boy . |
| 23 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
| 24 | The local councils in Birmingham , Bristol , Liverpool , Manchester and Sheffield , among others , denied this charge and pointed to several joint ventures with business , arguing that had they not been denied the resources , more co-operation would have been possible . |
| 25 | This is not easy to achieve , however , since like that of Meadow House Caravan Park , the sites in question often occupy positions along the coastline which , had they not been established before the advent of full planning control , would never have obtained planning consent , even for the ostensibly ‘ temporary ’ location of static caravans . |
| 26 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 27 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 28 | Had they not done it before ? |