Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rural economy experienced increasing labour shortages , low standards of living and poor performance during 1989 ; the food supply had not kept pace with the increase in population and storage and transport facilities were inadequate . |
| 2 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 3 | The US said yesterday the contras should not disband this week , as required by a regional peace agreement , because Nicaragua had not fulfilled conditions of the pact . |
| 4 | The US said yesterday the contras should not disband this week , as required by a regional peace agreement , because Nicaragua had not fulfilled conditions of the pact . |
| 5 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 6 | In any case , Eadmer could claim that since it was the bishops who had clasped his fingers round the staff , Anselm had not received investiture from the king . |
| 7 | Eliot 's letter of 22 October confirmed that he still had not received details from the Club ; but he understandably felt that while he could accept our invitation to tea , he ought to reserve his position about dinner . |
| 8 | In 1952 Archbishop Fisher had not wanted Ramsey for the see of Durham . |
| 9 | Perhaps , by her action , to convince him that she had not turned traitor to the King . |
| 10 | And the sirens escorted their prisoners from the Department to the Abu Ghraib gaol , and those who had not survived interrogation from the Abu Ghraib gaol to the Medical City Mortuary on the other side of the Al Sarafiyah Bridge . |
| 11 | Rachaela had not repaid Emma for the plethora of pink clothes , the blankets and toys , the pram and cot . |
| 12 | He said they would all be wanting to study the designs the minute Balor had cleared away breakfast and Bith at once reached for the knapsacks , and said he hoped Flaherty had not spilled jam on the drawing of the four-pronged diadem and Flaherty , injured , said indeed he had not and it the best damson jam he had ever tasted . |
| 13 | They pointed out that Lome III had not stimulated trade between the EC and the ACP countries ( since 1985 trade in both directions had actually fallen in both absolute and relative terms ) , or lessened the ACP countries ' economic dependence on the production of primary commodities , or encouraged industrialization . |
| 14 | She had not seen Angela since the weekend before the one on which she had disappeared , but had spoken to her twice on the telephone . |
| 15 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 16 | He would , however allow some 570 Austrian , Finnish , Portuguese , Swedish and Swiss nationals to leave because those countries had not sent forces to the Gulf . |
| 17 | Even with the drama of Munich and the prospect of war it seemed as though Alec Reid had not found time for the outside world . |
| 18 | The ILP founder , Keir Hardie , although a miner , had not entered parliament as the nominee of the Miners ' Federation and most ILP Members were nominated by local Party branches or Trades Councils rather than through the national trade unions . |
| 19 | Although Marian and Allen had not passed north of the Swamp in the night the Leader thought it probable that they might try to do so during the day . |
| 20 | O'Doherty , who had not taken part in the obstruction , was fined £5 for allegedly leading the singing of ‘ We shall overcome ’ ( a charge he denied ) , and the others were bound over for two years on £50 personal bail . |
| 21 | Difficulties in Soviet relations with its East European neighbours continued into the 1970s and 1980s , particularly in Romania ( which had not taken part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia and refused to allow any Soviet troops to be stationed on its territory ) and above all in Poland . |
| 22 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 23 | It is remarkable that the Palestinian Jews transmitted the new strength of their faith to those Jews who had not taken part in the Maccabean revolution and who might well have reacted unfavourably to it . |
| 24 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 25 | If he had not taken possession of the goods after the theft he had not received them . |
| 26 | The heads of the metatarsals were fused , which one would expect to be accomplished by nineteen years , but fusion had not taken place in the secondary pelvic centres . |
| 27 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 28 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 29 | Bottomley had in fact booked Lindsay Charnock to ride his horse at Leicester , but had not informed Weatherbys by the 3.30pm deadline . |
| 30 | ‘ But it would not have happened if Suter had not put £4m into the plant , ’ he said . |