Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] had [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one thing , of course , about which he had not lied . |
| 2 | He had made another visit as well , about which he had not told the King . |
| 3 | In four instances , the interviewees refused to discuss their criminal activities as these concerned crimes for which they had not been convicted . |
| 4 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 5 | Its inventor spent the remaining years of his life travelling from dental school to dental school making speeches that forbade dentists to ‘ misuse ’ his noble invention in applications for which he had not intended it . |
| 6 | After the hectic middle years , couples may renew or begin activities together for which there had not previously been time . |
| 7 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 8 | For all at once she could feel sweeping in on her a sense of utter desolation , the like of which she had n't known for years . |
| 9 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 10 | with which he had not reckoned . |
| 11 | On the test session , subjects in one group continued with this same arrangement but for subjects in the critical experimental condition the stimuli were presented in the contexts in which they had not previously occurred . |
| 12 | They argued , first , that pre-exposure to a context will reduce the extent to which a subject is likely to learn about it ( see Balaz , Capra , Kasprow , and Miller 1982 ) ; second , that presenting reinforcers ( shocks in this experiment ) in a context in which they had not previously occurred is functionally equivalent to transferring the animal to a physically different context . |
| 13 | Those who were quite recently converted began to take responsibility in different areas in which they had not seen a need prior to our departure . |
| 14 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 15 | Names like Rommel , Auchinleck , El Alamein sounded as common to the ear as Smith , Jones and Robinson ; yet Joe had the feeling that he was being forced to stand on the sidelines and watch a game in which he had not the slightest interest . |
| 16 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 17 | However much I might take refuge in the present in which it had not yet happened , there would be a moment when the present was the present in which it was happening . |
| 18 | They were interested in an object to which they had not before been exposed . |
| 19 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 20 | This opinion required that the other party to the Mandate agreement , South Africa , accept supervision by a body to which it had not consented and which was not even in existence at the time of the agreement . |
| 21 | It was like watching a party to which he had n't been invited . |
| 22 | Besides , being so late in the season he did not anticipate any difficulty ; although there was something else to which he had not given any thought . |
| 23 | Stephen Langton , however , was consecrated by Innocent at Rome without the king 's assent , so that , although Innocent had acted within canonical rules , the king felt threatened by this election outside his court , to which he had not given his consent . |
| 24 | It was holding a party to which I had not been invited . |
| 25 | On appealing to yet another committee , the 14 cases on which he had not been found guilty were resurrected and his dismissal confirmed . |
| 26 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 27 | But curiously enough the regret she felt , not for anything she had done but for what she had n't , quite put an end to the old wearisome illusion of prosecution and trial . |
| 28 | Such contact had for her possessed beauty , and he had shaken hands with her upon it ; he had not yelled at her for what she had not given . |
| 29 | Reluctantly she turned her eyes away , then gasped as her eyes fell on a painting in pride of place on the only wall at which she had not as yet glanced . |