Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following Resolution 43/83 on the Antarctic at the previous session [ see p. 36779 ] , part B of Resolution 44/124 expressed its regret that the Antarctic Treaty consultative parties had not invited the UN Secretary-General to meetings held in Paris in May and October 1989 [ see pp. 36989-90 ] , in spite of numerous resolutions to that effect . |
| 2 | It was further provided that if the parties had not agreed the rent six months before the review date , and the landlord had not made the application to the President , then any notice given by the landlord to trigger the review should be void and of no effect . |
| 3 | The regenerative cars had not shown the expected economies and indeed they were responsible for excessive current consumption . |
| 4 | The defendants had not contested the jurisdiction of the English court and must be taken to have accepted that the dispute would be settled in accordance with English procedure ; the English court must be in full control of its own procedures and not allow procedural battles to develop in other countries which would add to the expense and dislocate the timetable of English litigation . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs claimed that the exhaust pipes made by the defendants infringed the copyright in the original drawings of the exhaust systems , although the defendants had not seen the drawings . |
| 6 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 7 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 8 | Her parents had not accepted the grounds of referral to a children 's hearing , that L had been the victim of an offence , and the case had gone before Sheriff Sir Stephen Young at Greenock Sheriff Court . |
| 9 | But at the end of a very long , very hard life , he was still able to smile enthusiastically into his son 's lens and show that his experiences had n't got the better of him . |
| 10 | A total of 81 of the importing countries had not signed the Montreal Protocol . |
| 11 | Such a night for a ten-year-old child to be out on the North Sea , as by now she must be , if contrary winds had not driven the ship back into port . |
| 12 | The wind still moved the grass and flowers , and there were no animals around ; even the gulls had n't spotted the carrion yet . |
| 13 | Theresa 's son was born on 28 June 1937 and christened James Frederick , and Carrie said that Fred 's feet had not touched the ground since the child 's birth . |
| 14 | The hounds had not breasted the hill . |
| 15 | It was a $35,000 car — no wonder the owners had n't made the repayments — with computerised dash , booming hi-fi , and cruise control which meant the car would keep a fixed speed without a foot on the accelerator . |
| 16 | And dry it would have been if the heavens had n't opened the moment the ship docked and the troops set foot on French soil . |
| 17 | Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ . |
| 18 | Additionally , private landlords became marginalized politically ; industrialists had not extended the housing market and private landlords were drawn largely , though not entirely , from the lower middle class — the very people who found it more and more difficult to establish their position on local councils , bearing in mind , at least , the new element of organized labour via the Trades Councils . |
| 19 | And most of the seniors had not welcomed the appointment . |
| 20 | And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight . |
| 21 | The arguments had not stood the test of time too well , but it ended pithily enough : ‘ What the working man wants from the war is work . ’ |
| 22 | ( The locals had n't liked the look of them . ) |
| 23 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 24 | On a one-day visit from Washington , where he now resides , the US ambassador expressed his exasperated surprise that the Lebanese Forces had not joined the ‘ legitimate ’ government . |
| 25 | In its annual report , published in November , Lautro weighed into the life offices , complaining that the unexpectedly high costs of policing their activities had dented its finances , and beefing that members had not taken the task of compliance seriously . |
| 26 | She hoped the photographers had not upset the children . |
| 27 | About three-quarters ( 75% ) of the respondents had not used the Library as readers . |
| 28 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 29 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 30 | As intelligence tests had not superseded the older attainments tests , so school records did not supersede the test battery . |