Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not made the speech lightly , a considerable amount of thought and soul-searching had gone into it , and it was against the advice of most of his staff that he went ahead with it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Which was just why Mrs Goreng had not made the trip any longer . |
| 4 | But Kemp had not made the call , he 'd claimed , from Paddington ! |
| 5 | If a patent were to be granted , such prior use is a defence to an infringement action , by section 64 , and could also invalidate the patent if challenged unless such use had not made the invention available to the public . |
| 6 | It was further provided that if the parties had not agreed the rent six months before the review date , and the landlord had not made the application to the President , then any notice given by the landlord to trigger the review should be void and of no effect . |
| 7 | Teesside Magistrates were told he had not entered plans with Middlesbrough council , had failed to give notice of work being carried out and had not made the foundations big enough or deep enough . |
| 8 | The swing towards England in the 1540s had not eradicated the outward-looking tradition built up throughout the later Middle Ages . |
| 9 | The therapist thought Mary appeared to benefit from these telephone contacts and had not abused the availability of open access . |
| 10 | For Joan , though she had not recognized the fact until that instant when the words crossed her lips , had meant what she said . |
| 11 | Although the government indicated that it was prepared to negotiate with the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia , it said that it had not renounced the use of force . |
| 12 | But she had not possessed the capacity to benefit from her revelation , and so bitterness , petulance and self-pity became the only possible responses . |
| 13 | The eventual landing force was smaller than planned because naval air reconnaissance showed the Germans had not garrisoned the island . |
| 14 | Initially this satisfied the Marne growers , since they were pleased that the government had not ratified the Aube 's claim that it too was part of Champagne . |
| 15 | In the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases , Germany , unlike Denmark and the Netherlands , had not ratified the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf . |
| 16 | Of the fifteen States which had not ratified the amendment by 1979. he predicted that five ( Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi , South Carolina and Utah ) almost certainly would not , five ( Arkansas , Georgia , Missouri , North Carolina and Oklahoma ) might , whereas Arizona , Florida , Illinois , Nevada and Virginia possibly would . |
| 17 | By the end of 1988 only Manitoba and New Brunswick had not ratified the Accord , but during 1989 not only did these two provinces continue to withhold ratification , but several others suggested that they might withdraw their earlier support for the Accord . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Courts of Love would not have worked if the women had not created the qualities within themselves which those knights could respond to . |
| 20 | In passing I have reflected its natural selection and our God had not created the fruit fly , it would have been necessary for biologists to have invented it . |
| 21 | It was felt that this unit had not met the expectations of the department heads , and some improvements were necessary , without a clear definition of where these might be achieved . |
| 22 | ‘ He had not met the King then . |
| 23 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 24 | Police had not named the man last night , but locals said he was known as Big Leo , of Thorntree . |
| 25 | The enemy had destroyed all flesh , but had not discovered the skeleton of brick and its bedrock of soil . |
| 26 | Forget , he says , the fact that the people ( I am desperately trying to avoid using the words ‘ Red Indian ’ and refuse to opt for the hopelessly inadequate euphemism , Native American ) whom the Spaniards and others found had not discovered the wheel and had no draught animals . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 28 | Grainne had not questioned the truth or the logic , or even the history that must lie behind this . |
| 29 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 30 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |