Example sentences of "[noun sg] had not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court further concluded that the drafting of individual conditions of sale by each publisher would not impose an undue commercial burden , and that the Association had not advanced any arguments to show the impracticability of monitoring such individual agreements . |
| 2 | The House found that the defendant had not fulfilled such a duty to take reasonable care and was thus liable to the plaintiff for the damage caused to her health . |
| 3 | Bennett J found that the defendant had not copied any formulae from the book ; that he had not been warned as to secrecy when he entered his employment and that he was able to learn the relevant processes without difficulty ; indeed this was information which he could not help acquiring in the course of his work . |
| 4 | The only policeman on patrol with the soldiers claimed he witnessed the attack and that the stolen car had not hit any member of the patrol and that the shooting had been totally unjustified . |
| 5 | In particular , the issue of the lack of oral work was brought up again , the argument being made that a particular adviser had not seen enough lessons to make this conclusion . |
| 6 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 7 | By 1968 , with the CNAA withdrawing approval of the honours degree in quantity surveying , the College had not overcome some of its early difficulties . |
| 8 | The Hatchet had not lost those qualities which had made him one of the most respected , and feared , members of the underworld . |
| 9 | Although that session had not given any indication of why her water phobia had begun , at least it had shown her that there was a time before it existed . |
| 10 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
| 11 | He hoped the Museum had not left any priceless bits of Islamic art lying around the place . |
| 12 | Two weeks ago The Northern Echo reported that Darlington council had not given any money to help mark the occasion at the rail museum . |
| 13 | Prof Biddle said the dig had not unearthed any archaeological evidence before about 900 . |
| 14 | Paul had the technical know-how to copy Edison 's Kinetoscope when he realized the American inventor had n't covered all the necessary patents , to make his own camera when Edison cut off the supply of films and produce a film projector , the Theatrograph , within two months of hearing about Lumière 's invention . |
| 15 | Assistant coach John Jeffrey — something of a folk hero in these parts — noted the players had found conditions very tiring , but the cocktail of stifling heat laced with heavy rain had not forced any tactical re-think . |
| 16 | Daddy had n't saved any money because he thought he could always make more . |
| 17 | The mother of one of the teenage victims said that ‘ although many Press reports had treated the case as a racial attack , the court had not taken that attitude and she felt that was correct ’ . |
| 18 | Decision : the sole ground of appeal was that in sentencing the appellant to 12 months detention in a young offender institution , the maximum term for an offender aged 16 , the sentencer had not allowed any discount for his plea of guilty . |
| 19 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 20 | The magistrate , staring at the ceiling , asked why the landlord had not remembered this . |
| 21 | Curly Top had n't had enough time to get more people to the gatehouse . |
| 22 | This season had n't started any better with reversals already suffered at Arsenal and Liverpool . |
| 23 | The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway . |
| 24 | Nor would it have occurred if her aunt had not written several gloomy letters to Mother — letters that had been full of pathos and self-pity . |
| 25 | Clara swore that she would pay for herself out of her Post Office Savings : her mother said that her dead father had n't put that money away for her to squander on trips abroad . |
| 26 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 27 | The court refused to allow the claim , holding that the clause ( imposing an exorbitant charge ) was particularly onerous and unusual and the library had not taken all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the agency . |
| 28 | Let us recap : intellectually and in terms of technical content town planning had not advanced all that much since the remarkable flowering of the early years of the century . |
| 29 | The truth shall set you free , but oh , the truth of her past had not done that — it had simply shown her what a selfish , unthinking thing she had been that first Terry Rourke , and then Havvie Blaine could have exploited her so . |
| 30 | The man had not mentioned any other guests ; it was to be hoped Fräulein Müller was still staying here . |