Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galileo had his reasons ; for he wished to say that it was up to his clerical opponents to prove that the Copernican system had not been demonstrated . |
| 2 | Her dark , waving hair had not been tied back ; instead it stood out from her face , wildly . |
| 3 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 4 | A Mayday was transmitted , but it later transpired that this had not been heard , probably due to a simultaneous transmission from another aircraft . |
| 5 | Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth . |
| 6 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 7 | One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work . |
| 8 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 9 | " Quite sure , my lord , " said the jackal , " and if your lordship 's eyes had not been dazzled — ahem — by the sun , your lordship would have seen the woman 's pigtail hanging down behind her . " |
| 10 | She had dared , and she had not been struck dead for it ; she had exposed herself , and she had not been raped , assaulted , or even insulted . |
| 11 | Although the newly established conservative majority on the Supreme Court had undermined the 1973 decision , most notably in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services in July 1989 , the precedent had not been struck down in its entirety . |
| 12 | No , the MP had not been visited , but his name was mentioned . |
| 13 | These were the parents who had not been questioned , nor had their house been searched on the morning of 27 February . |
| 14 | If the trumpets of Britain had not been blown loud and long from St Mary 's , a different myth would have grown giving all the credit to America . |
| 15 | In a June 4 editorial entitled Stability overrides all other considerations , Renmin Ribao ( the People 's Daily ) , the Communist Party newspaper , commented that " China would be in great chaos now " if the 1989 " rebellion " had not been quelled . |
| 16 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 17 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
| 18 | Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default . |
| 19 | In a report to Cleveland 's health and safety committee , county safety adviser Peter Prunty admits : ‘ It would appear that the work that was being undertaken by Nacro had not been planned in sufficient detail to cover such occurrences . ’ |
| 20 | The effect of removing the non-health housing and caring functions of the institutions had not been quantified . |
| 21 | They have shown that patients with chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer may malabsorb carbohydrate , but the amount malabsorbed had not been quantified . |
| 22 | The date of Edward 's coronation had not been announced , partly because the protector wished first to ascertain the reaction of the commonalty to the news that the three prisoners at Pontefract had been executed . |
| 23 | The decision of the Supreme Court had not been announced by the end of February . |
| 24 | Again , the vast majority , 77 per cent , felt that their work effort had not been affected by taxation rates ; 13.1 per cent reported disincentive effects and 10.1 per cent reported the opposite . |
| 25 | If such an agreement had not been reached within 18 months , the government of Quebec would hold a referendum on the issue of independence . |
| 26 | The Slovenian Assembly in July 1990 published a formal declaration claiming full sovereignty [ see p. 37622 ] , and in December a popular referendum showed a majority of 95 per cent in favour of the republic 's withdrawal from the federation if , after six months , a satisfactory accommodation in relations between Serbia and Slovenia had not been reached . |
| 27 | However , at the end of December — the deadline established by the UN for completion of the process — a full settlement of the hostage crisis had not been reached . |
| 28 | The court at first instance in Pappa v Rose ( 1871 ) LR 7 CP 32 thought it significant that " umpirage " had not been reached because in its view there could be no real dispute before that stage . |
| 29 | They said that the question had not been argued before them and they expressed no opinion on it . |
| 30 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |