Example sentences of "had not [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week .
2 However , the shapechangers had not travelled to this planet in a space hopper .
3 Held , dismissing the appeal , the judge had not referred to any specific provision of the Code .
4 How then was it possible that a similar contradiction in the social formation of India , China , and Peru had not led to similar development ?
5 Still the previous spills of asbestos in the factory had not led to any action by the workers .
6 The earlier transfer to local authorities of responsibilities previously exercised by the Poor Law Guardians had not led to any rapid improvement in the services ( Wilson 1948:76 — 7 ) .
7 Jaq wished she had not alluded to any such notion .
8 My mind had not adjusted to this new sight , though .
9 She had not replied to any of his earlier messages , and she would not respond to this one .
10 Curators of the ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ exhibition think Shchukin has started the case to pressure Russian authorities who had not replied to earlier requests about the paintings .
11 The introduction of the new block grant system for local authorities under the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 resulted in one hiccough for the minister when the Divisional Court held that he had not listened to further representations when he should have done .
12 Fortunately it had not come to that .
13 ‘ Some people ’ had argued that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide had serious implications for the climate , but the committee had not come to any conclusions on that .
14 Claire Robinson in her affidavit deposes that all parties were in agreement that the court on 16 February had not come to any opinion as to whether or not Mr. Bell had broken or was likely to break any condition of his bail .
15 Remarkably , four out of these five had not spoken to each other since 1939 .
16 But last night beleaguered United boss Alex Ferguson , under pressure from the Old Trafford board to seal a big-name transfer before his side 's next game against Oldham a week tomorrow , whose bid for Sheffield Wednesday striker David Hirst was rejected earlier this week , insisted an agreement was impossible because Edwards had not spoken to EITHER of them .
17 In fact he was so impressed he agreed to make an allowance towards James 's student fees at St Bartholomew 's , but it had not stretched to comfortable accommodation .
18 The indications for TIPSS were bleeding from gastric varices ( six patients ) or recurrent bleeding from oesophageal varices that had not responded to repeated injection sclerotherapy ( 10 patients , number of bleeds two to more than 10 before TIPSS ) .
19 On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales .
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