Example sentences of "had not the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 2 | and would have done so , had not the laws of nature prevented it . |
| 3 | It had not the cachet of Oxford , but its teachings were sound . |
| 4 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 5 | And he knew he had not the justification of genius . |