Example sentences of "it had not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the company had already agreed to continue paying existing pensioners , it had not made any commitment for past and present employees retiring now and in the future . |
| 2 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 3 | It had not reached full strength until approximately 15 December 1949 ; the school system ( subdivision into Infantry Staff School , Korean Military Academy , Artillery Ordnance , Engineer , Quartermaster , Finance , Medical Schools ) comprised a solid foundation for the army and must be continued . |
| 4 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 5 | She knew that it had not gone unremarked … |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it will be a much easier horse to handle , for example to catch , than if it had not had this early contact with people . |
| 7 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 8 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 9 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 10 | It had not seemed possible to him that the fair creature could still be alive , for messages from native sources had indicated that Krishnapur had been invested since the beginning of June . |
| 11 | The war had , of course , done considerable damage to Spain 's productive capacity , but it had not occasioned total collapse . |
| 12 | It had not left much time to arrange for a reception committee . |
| 13 | Mr Gordon Walker told The Bookseller he regretted that it had not proved possible to agree on a ‘ suitable continuing role for Felicity ’ . |
| 14 | In short , it had not proved possible to devise an equitable and workable system . |
| 15 | The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories . |