Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect . |
| 2 | Although a supporter of higher spending on education and health care , he had not made a strong record on these issues as senator . |
| 3 | He concluded that the council had not made a sufficient case to justify dismissing their Reporter . |
| 4 | Hampstead District had not made a formal response within the RHA 's consultative period , but it was noted that |
| 5 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 6 | If the Department of Industry had not made a direct grant to the company it is unlikely that SCAMP would exist . |
| 7 | The United States argued that Nicaragua had not made a valid declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) , since the Registry of the Permanent Court had not received a notification of deposit of its ratification of the Protocol of Signature of the Statute . |
| 8 | ‘ He said we had not made an official request . |
| 9 | In this case , however , the defence failed because although the auctioneer had regularly made reference to the fact that he did not guarantee the mileage of any car , he had not made an oral disclaimer before accepting bids on the particular car in question and the disclaimer in the written conditions of the auction sale had not been sufficiently brought to the attention of the buyer . |
| 10 | The swing towards England in the 1540s had not eradicated the outward-looking tradition built up throughout the later Middle Ages . |
| 11 | The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed . |
| 12 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 13 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 14 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 15 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 16 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 17 | A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting . |
| 18 | The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result . |
| 19 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
| 20 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 21 | " Now let me see myself in a glass , " Sara said eventually , and when one was brought gave a gasp of surprise , because she had not worn the high collar before or had her hair braided , and although these strange garments were a little uncomfortable and restricting she could n't help admiring the slashed sleeves , the low , square neck and the wonderful wide skirt that swept the stone floor . |
| 22 | Bound up with this change , and giving further impetus to it , was a shift in the centre of bargaining from national to local level — to the ‘ militancy and dynamise de la base ’ [ Phelps Brown , 1975 , 5 ] which had not suffered the searing experience of mass unemployment . |
| 23 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 24 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 25 | The level of foreign trade was still low in terms of national income , and the USSR had not become a major trading partner for most of the developed capitalist countries ; nor was interpersonal contact particularly large given the population numbers involved . |
| 26 | If Michael Joyce had not become a naturalised citizen of the United States during his residence there , then his son would have inherited British nationality from his father . |
| 27 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 28 | At least the pronunciamiento had not become a speculative business enterprise for generals . |
| 29 | Wolves , unbeaten in seven games , had not conceded an away goal . |
| 30 | Heseltine brushed aside attacks on his ‘ socialist ’ policies by pointing out that this had not prevented the Prime Minister from including him in her Cabinet . |