Example sentences of "had not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Average donor country ODA to LDCs during the 1980s had not exceeded 0.09 per cent , and almost all donor countries also still fell well below the UN target for ODA to all developing countries , set at 0.7 per cent of GNP . ) |
| 2 | The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway . |
| 3 | They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America . |
| 4 | The steady flow of money from record sales and overseas royalties had meant that Virgin had not made great demands on their overdraft facility . |
| 5 | Since she had not made that fact known to the seller , she lost the case . |
| 6 | Mr Gourlay said there was also concern about the transitional arrangements which would lead to disparity of treatment between different companies which had not made long-term commitments for rigs which would qualify for tax relief . |
| 7 | Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold . |
| 8 | The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress . |
| 9 | It seemed scarcely conceivable that the leadership had not made sufficient provision for the troops wintering in Russia . |
| 10 | A survey of retired people by MORI revealed that nearly half of those questioned said that they had not made sufficient allowance for inflation . |
| 11 | But if Ashton had not made these very distinctive changes in his ports de bras , the seasonal differences would not have been so notable . |
| 12 | He said it was disappointing that the Government had not made clear that it will be prepared to stimulate monetary growth by underfunding the Budget deficit . |
| 13 | Although the company had already agreed to continue paying existing pensioners , it had not made any commitment for past and present employees retiring now and in the future . |
| 14 | In the end the loss of the canoe had not made any difference as there was no shipping in the harbour anyway . |
| 15 | Chelmsford coroner Malcolm Weir was told American police were still investigating the crime but had not made any arrests . |
| 16 | The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit . |
| 17 | But at least if his mother could tell , he reflected , she had not made any sign . |
| 18 | Her expression became very solemn , but he was sure that he had not made any real impression . |
| 19 | Moorgate Mercantile had not made any representation to Twitchings . |
| 20 | He said the men had not made any radio calls for help . |
| 21 | Arens insisted that he had not made any requests for US financial aid to cover the costs of the conflict . |
| 22 | The only thing she said was that she had not made any friends . ’ |
| 23 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 24 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 25 | The US Representative for Trade Negotiations , Carla Hills , announced on April 28 , 1990 , that under Section 301 of the US Trade Act Thailand would remain on a priority watch list of countries which had not made enough progress in improving intellectual property protection . |
| 26 | In March 1143 Pope Innocent II decreed that its validity was to depend on Ste Barbe swearing that it had been canonical ; he had not made this oath by February 1146 , when Eugenius III suspended Fitzherbert . |
| 27 | Sophia , who had not made this flight before , was disappointed that it did not look more like the Italian landscape she remembered from the ground . |
| 28 | Among several other flaws in Anselm 's election and investiture , there was one which neither Anselm nor anyone else mentioned at the time , but was later to be held against him by the papal legate : on a strict view , his election -in addition to all its other legal defects — had been schismatic , since the king and all the others who took part , with the sole exception of Anselm himself , were schismatics , for they had not recognized Urban II as the legitimate pope although he had now been pope for five years . |
| 29 | Miss Tunstall had not possessed work-reddened hands and knees . |
| 30 | So the Boars had been busy … while the real battle raged closer to the black chandelier of the Imperium , to set those parts which had not contracted a-tinkling and a-rattling . |