Example sentences of "which had [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She struggled up , wiping a lump of mud from her forehead , and gazed after the car , which had not even slowed down . |
| 2 | The ‘ piecemeal ’ entry of the former colleges of education and some other colleges which had not previously secured polytechnic status was not quite along lines that the Robbins Committee had proposed , but the picture of higher education that had been developing from the early 1960s was now broader and more complex . |
| 3 | First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage . |
| 4 | This was to be pursued in three phases , starting with ( i ) the co-ordination of monetary policies among the member states , to be initiated by the formation of a council of central bank governors and aimed at achieving desirable fiscal limits and the liberalization of wages , prices , trade , financial and commercial policies ; this was to be followed by ( ii ) the requirement that those countries which had not yet achieved macro-economic stability maintain parities within an agreed band ; there would finally take place ( iii ) the creation of a Caribbean monetary authority with powers to issue a single currency . |
| 5 | With the passing of the 1910 Choice of Employment Act , the education committee decided to exercise its powers and petition for the closing of the JAC ( which had not yet begun its work ) so that it could open what was termed a Juvenile Employment Bureau and Care Committee System . |
| 6 | The train was a kind of purgatory , a waiting time , between the known and completed past and the unguessable future which had not yet begun . |
| 7 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 8 | At a time when fashion , like much British culture , reflected predominantly middle-class values , and to escape these students were tapering their trousers and doing everything they could to make dull clothes more interesting , Minton 's stylish Bohemianism was much admired : he pioneered a taste for donkey jackets and had a flair for combining well-cut cast-offs and bow ties with eccentric items bought from Carnaby Street which had not yet become fashionable . |
| 9 | Purley depôt was put into use as a store for war damaged cars , plus a few cars in running order , which had not yet received windscreens to the driver 's platforms . |
| 10 | In this case it was probably a matter of a commercial bourgeoisie , itself still rising in importance , which had not yet found its styles in art . |
| 11 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 12 | The " literature " to which Playfair refers is , of course , classics rather than English literature ( which had not yet come to be seen as an adequate instrument of " culture " ) . |
| 13 | Mr Ayre said a national report earlier in the week showed grant maintained schools were faring better than their counterparts which had not yet opted out . |
| 14 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 15 | The movement owed its existence in part to an amalgam of anxieties specific to the London crisis of the 1860s , in particular to what Gareth Stedman Jones has called ‘ The Deformation of the Gift ’ , that is , the emergence of a gulf between the classes which had not only destroyed the ‘ gift relationship ’ involving elements of ‘ prestige , subordination and obligation ’ , but was also fundamentally responsible for the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor . |
| 16 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 17 | Some boys wore boots which had not only had previous owners and were not well fitting but also had soles and heels covered with metal studs . |
| 18 | Finally I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me in the Pláka , which had not then become a pandemonium . |
| 19 | He had met her while staying with his Burne-Jones cousins at Rottingdean , a Sussex coastal village which had not then become a suburb of Brighton . |
| 20 | He also made sure that all players were kept informed of decisions about team selection , which had not always happened before . |
| 21 | It was quite clear in 1973 that the new advice scheme was intended to bring into solicitors ' offices problems of a kind which had not hitherto surfaced . |
| 22 | However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture . |
| 23 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |