Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [vb pp] the same " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago . |
2 | Speaking after a meeting with EC Finance Ministers in Luxembourg he envisaged that a smaller number of countries with low inflation ( France , West Germany , Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg ) would enter a European central banking system and that others who had not reached the same degree of economic convergence , or were not ready to give up sufficient sovereignty rights , would be invited to enter later . |
3 | Because of poor management the Polytechnic had not had the same ‘ close and supportive relationship with the authority that the College of Education had enjoyed ’ . |
4 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
5 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |