Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , the Law Lords chose to say that the GLC had not adequately taken into account the interests of the rate payers and that the interests of the users of public transport had been unduly preferred . |
| 2 | Madonna had not even appeared in court with him . |
| 3 | Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality . |
| 4 | Although two thirds of companies had not previously used outside advice and counselling , 35% did say that they would consider it . |
| 5 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 6 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 7 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 8 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
| 9 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 10 | … this mirrored the belief that medical science had not only triumphed over disease and illness in the past but would continue to do so in future . |
| 11 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 12 | And second , it appears that the latter withdrew his approval of the initial closure proposal because the Education Committee had not fully complied with government regulations on closure procedure . |
| 13 | Even if they were , they had not necessarily fallen from grace . |
| 14 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 15 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 16 | He knew he would n't be able to and now , as he swung himself out of bed , Ray Plummer wondered why he had n't just sat in front of the television until the time came . |
| 17 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 18 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 19 | Lorton had n't even thought of lunch . |