Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 2 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 3 | On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity . |
| 4 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 5 | There seemed to be a lot of faces I had not noticed in the original team . |
| 6 | Service , for 18 months , was compulsory for men over 19 who had not served in the Soviet army . |
| 7 | But he had not served in the Royal Marines for nothing . |
| 8 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 9 | Writing in 1959 and with reference to Peter Townsend 's calculation that a fifth of the population had not shared in the general improvement in living standards since the war , Roy Jenkins argued : |
| 10 | They had not slept in the same bed for nearly two years . |
| 11 | The eating of eggs together had not figured in the romantic picture , perhaps no actual food had suggested itself . |
| 12 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 13 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 14 | a third had n't eaten in the previous twenty four hours . |
| 15 | That situation had n't changed in the past hour . |
| 16 | Anwar had n't compromised in the slightest , not nibbling a biscuit or sipping a glass of water or smoking a single cigarette . |