Example sentences of "that they [vb past] not [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the pair reveal that they had not planned the child they are expecting at the end of the year . |
| 2 | Subsequently the contemnor complained to the local authority that they had not served the committal order on him personally and had failed to comply with the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules , that ‘ in all cases the applicant 's solicitors are responsible for serving the committal order ’ and that in consequence the order should be set aside . |
| 3 | The two reportedly denied reports that they had left their London hotel to attend the Palestine National Council ( PNC ) meeting in Algiers in September [ see pp. 38453-54 ] , and the PLO news agency Wafa on Sept. 26 said that they had not attended the PLO meeting in person , but had sent a message which was read out to the political committee . |
| 4 | By the second year there was considerable disappointment that they had not developed the purchasing role as far as they had hoped . |
| 5 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 6 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 7 | Her dressmakers realized too late that they had not taken the size of the coach into consideration when they had designed the ivory silk wedding gown with its 25-foot-long train . |
| 8 | While the Law Society confirmed that the service had been cleared by its Standards and Guidance Committee in 1990 , a spokeswoman was quick to point out that they had not endorsed the company in any way . |
| 9 | There was hardly any educational element of the job , and most of the consultants interviewed admitted that they had not read the GMC 's recommendations on this . |
| 10 | It appears that the fighters missed Fuchida 's flare and he had to fire a second , this was unfortunate as the firing of two flares meant that they had not surprised the Americans , which of course they had . |
| 11 | Instead , there were various individuals — Ferdinand , Isabella and their councillors — and the fact that they did not want the unification of Spain and the Hapsburg lands is presented as decisive evidence against Braudel 's view . |
| 12 | It is not clear from the report in Willmott v. Atack whether the police had made it plain that they did not want the defendant 's ‘ help , ’ and , if so , what impact that has on the state of the law . |
| 13 | Their applications were refused on the grounds that they did not meet the admission criteria . |
| 14 | But this does not mean that they did not face the troublesome question Berkeley faces , of how to distinguish between illusion and reality . |
| 15 | Of course , sensible managers would know that the accounts did not include any orders issued against which invoices had not been received and would , therefore , keep their own record of these so that they did not overcommit the budget . |
| 16 | Villages were razed to the ground , so that they did not disrupt the view from drawing-room windows , with the same enthusiasm with which the peasantry on the more distant corners of the estate were dispossessed of their wetland commons in the pursuit of productive farming . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard executives , however , confirmed that they did not regard the plan to introduce servers at the 20 regional branch offices as a ‘ funded project ’ and Hungarian Minister for Labour Gyula Kiss made no reference to the programme in a detailed briefing on Hungarian employment policy delivered to the foreign pass contingent last week . |
| 18 | It was held on the point that they did not disabuse the crowd of the notion that the tapes were genuine that the jury were entitled to draw the inference that any buyer was relying on a representation that the tapes were genuine . |
| 19 | So the policy makers , the planners ( and the academics ? ) all sought to make sure that they did not influence the situation in Dunrossness . |
| 20 | One would not suggest that they did not hold the Muftilik , but one can suggest that they held a very different kind of Muftilik from that held by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 21 | The Russians were determined to remove every last item of its inventory , down to the lavatory brushes and the steel tracks on which the dockyard trains ran : indeed it was a miracle to me that they did not demand the cobblestones as well . |
| 22 | Earlier workers failed ; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures . |
| 23 | The Library Association took legal advice on whether they could take action , but were apparently advised that they did not have the ‘ locus ’ to intervene in this way . |
| 24 | It may also have been reassuring to US audiences , while America was being condemned world-wide for its barbaric acts in Vietnam , to see that they did not have the monopoly on violence , which could even be found in an English village . |
| 25 | A problem was that they did not have the time to do this ; cells were being charged up and time was running out , every spare moment being needed for preparing and measuring active cells . |
| 26 | But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off . |
| 27 | After the failure of a ‘ respectable ’ revolution in 1819 the conspiracy fell into the hands of young officers and Masons who used the mysterious procedures of the sect in order to hide the fact that they did not have the ‘ old gang 's ’ financial backing for the reward of wholesale desertion . |
| 28 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 29 | Such mishaps were bad omens , and though the townspeople maintained that they did not take the Wheel seriously they were happier when all went according to plan . |
| 30 | It is through no fault of those people that they did not receive the money , but there is no way in which they can receive it . |