Example sentences of "had not [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 2 | The Scottish Office has already told landowners in the path of the mains who complained that the Central Scotland Water Development Board had not followed the proper procedures that the Secretary of the State was unable to intervene . |
| 3 | Up to the time of voting Ratsiraka had not accepted the new conditions of the Constitution ; his federalist supporters nevertheless agreed to participate in the elections . |
| 4 | This incident had not prevented the two countries from reaching agreement , on Oct. 31 , 1991 , on cross-border co-operation on the control of guerrilla activity . |
| 5 | At the same time Althusser argued that Sartre had not isolated the central problems of orthodox Marxist theory , and as a result continued to work with some of its more questionable preconceptions . |
| 6 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 7 | Despite this indication that Franco had not changed the political principles on which his regime had been established in 1939 , the US military establishment pressed ahead with its plans , on the one hand to secure bases in Spain and , on the other , to help Spain become militarily capable of joining NATO . |
| 8 | I still hated and feared the thought of the wild animal inside me , and I had not forgotten the desperate dangers of the day before . |
| 9 | Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory . |
| 10 | Two morans had been killed , and still Leavitt had not produced the promised cattle . |
| 11 | He had not learned the applicable procedures yet . |
| 12 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 13 | The regenerative cars had not shown the expected economies and indeed they were responsible for excessive current consumption . |
| 14 | Afterwards the Cardinal accepted that he had not appreciated the strong feelings of Jews on this issue and that he now hoped to find out more about the Shoah ( the Hebrew word for the Holocaust ) . |
| 15 | Even in craft trades the cost of substituting for a wife could be high : one hatter in 1824 reckoned that if his wife had not picked the coarse hairs out of his material he would have lost from 6s to 9s 4d ( 30p to 47p ) from wages of £2 to £3 . |
| 16 | He had not delivered the fatal blows , he had not pulled the trigger . |
| 17 | As intelligence tests had not superseded the older attainments tests , so school records did not supersede the test battery . |
| 18 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 19 | I suppose you thought I had n't noticed the occasional vagaries in the systems ? ’ |
| 20 | She wished she had n't seen the broken railings , or that whoever was in the bath chair had not elected to come out just then . |
| 21 | I had n't timed the fifty yards but it had been no sprint . |
| 22 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to look at why we had n't penetrated the potential markets , and I did a research project on that , and how we could go about it . ’ |
| 24 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |