Example sentences of "had not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect . |
| 2 | Although a supporter of higher spending on education and health care , he had not made a strong record on these issues as senator . |
| 3 | He concluded that the council had not made a sufficient case to justify dismissing their Reporter . |
| 4 | Hampstead District had not made a formal response within the RHA 's consultative period , but it was noted that |
| 5 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 6 | If the Department of Industry had not made a direct grant to the company it is unlikely that SCAMP would exist . |
| 7 | The United States argued that Nicaragua had not made a valid declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) , since the Registry of the Permanent Court had not received a notification of deposit of its ratification of the Protocol of Signature of the Statute . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He said we had not made an official request . |
| 10 | In this case , however , the defence failed because although the auctioneer had regularly made reference to the fact that he did not guarantee the mileage of any car , he had not made an oral disclaimer before accepting bids on the particular car in question and the disclaimer in the written conditions of the auction sale had not been sufficiently brought to the attention of the buyer . |
| 11 | The swing towards England in the 1540s had not eradicated the outward-looking tradition built up throughout the later Middle Ages . |
| 12 | The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed . |
| 13 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 14 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 15 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 16 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 17 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 18 | A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting . |
| 19 | The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result . |
| 20 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 21 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 22 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ When I started riding again at the IRTA tests in late February I had not ridden a 500 for five months and that 's too long to be away from a 500 . |
| 24 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
| 25 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 26 | The Scottish Office has already told landowners in the path of the mains who complained that the Central Scotland Water Development Board had not followed the proper procedures that the Secretary of the State was unable to intervene . |
| 27 | " Now let me see myself in a glass , " Sara said eventually , and when one was brought gave a gasp of surprise , because she had not worn the high collar before or had her hair braided , and although these strange garments were a little uncomfortable and restricting she could n't help admiring the slashed sleeves , the low , square neck and the wonderful wide skirt that swept the stone floor . |
| 28 | Bound up with this change , and giving further impetus to it , was a shift in the centre of bargaining from national to local level — to the ‘ militancy and dynamise de la base ’ [ Phelps Brown , 1975 , 5 ] which had not suffered the searing experience of mass unemployment . |
| 29 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 30 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |