Example sentences of "had not make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America .
2 The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway .
3 The steady flow of money from record sales and overseas royalties had meant that Virgin had not made great demands on their overdraft facility .
4 Since she had not made that fact known to the seller , she lost the case .
5 Mr Gourlay said there was also concern about the transitional arrangements which would lead to disparity of treatment between different companies which had not made long-term commitments for rigs which would qualify for tax relief .
6 Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold .
7 The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress .
8 It seemed scarcely conceivable that the leadership had not made sufficient provision for the troops wintering in Russia .
9 A survey of retired people by MORI revealed that nearly half of those questioned said that they had not made sufficient allowance for inflation .
10 But at least if his mother could tell , he reflected , she had not made any sign .
11 The only thing she said was that she had not made any friends . ’
12 Arens insisted that he had not made any requests for US financial aid to cover the costs of the conflict .
13 In the end the loss of the canoe had not made any difference as there was no shipping in the harbour anyway .
14 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 .
15 Chelmsford coroner Malcolm Weir was told American police were still investigating the crime but had not made any arrests .
16 He said the men had not made any radio calls for help .
17 In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) .
18 The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit .
19 Moorgate Mercantile had not made any representation to Twitchings .
20 The US Representative for Trade Negotiations , Carla Hills , announced on April 28 , 1990 , that under Section 301 of the US Trade Act Thailand would remain on a priority watch list of countries which had not made enough progress in improving intellectual property protection .
21 The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them .
22 In March 1143 Pope Innocent II decreed that its validity was to depend on Ste Barbe swearing that it had been canonical ; he had not made this oath by February 1146 , when Eugenius III suspended Fitzherbert .
23 Sophia , who had not made this flight before , was disappointed that it did not look more like the Italian landscape she remembered from the ground .
24 I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress .
25 If we had n't made this tractor there are half a dozen other products we could have tried
26 I said I thought Surkov felt resentful because the novels had n't made more money .
27 If you had retired yesterday and you had n't made proper arrangements what impact would this have on your way of life ?
28 As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’
29 He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they had n't made any payment for 17 months .
30 We turned into Dwyer Street and I still had n't made any headway .
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