Example sentences of "had not [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swing towards England in the 1540s had not eradicated the outward-looking tradition built up throughout the later Middle Ages . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was also glad that she had not squandered the remaining money Mrs Gracie had given her ; from what Paul said it was going to be needed . |
| 12 | Of the richest thirty-five countries in 1958 , all but six had the required level of primary education in 1920 ; vice versa , of the fifty countries that had not achieved the minimum level of primary education in 1920 , only one was among the developed countries in 1958 . |
| 13 | They had not achieved the essential element of surprise on which he had counted , and he was filled with foreboding . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 16 | The hon. Lady also said that the Government had not supported the Northern Development Company . |
| 17 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 18 | It reconfirmed that Her Majesty 's Government was not concerned with the recognition of governments and had not recognised the purported secession . |
| 19 | But in the end the argument apparently prevailed that the punishment had not breached the minimum threshold of severity to constitute a violation of human rights . |
| 20 | Since her father had not stipulated the exact time when they were to ride , Artemis was dressed and in the stables at first light lest she miss her treat by being late . |
| 21 | A key figure for this last task was the archbishop of Canterbury , but not all were as reliable or as effective on the king 's behalf as Sudbury proved to be : Islip ( 1349–66 ) had not secured the sexennial grant requested in 1356 , although probably even Sudbury would have had problems with such an extreme proposal ; and after Sudbury , Courtenay ( 1381–96 ) was not always obliging . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal held that this decision should be quashed because the Minister had not applied the correct test of competing needs , in this case between those of local government and those of other office users . |
| 25 | But though the stream rose on his own land , he had not obtained the proper extraction licence and so got the water free . |
| 26 | had not seen the relevant declaration granted by the court in Handscomb , which was : |
| 27 | Since D had not sought the inside information , he was duly acquitted . |
| 28 | He said that if they had not gained the upper hand then the old Völkisch parties would certainly have picked a fight with Poland . |
| 29 | Auguste had not observed the slow smile creeping over William 's face as Joseph placed in his hand a rod with a hook on the and . |
| 30 | He had not visited the Southern Capital , Huy felt sure , for at least eight years , and possibly longer , following the removal of the court to the new City of the Horizon downriver . |