Example sentences of "[Wh det] had not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 2 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 3 | Mr Sisulu said that it was just a draft plan , which had not been adopted . |
| 4 | We were playing a silly game , which had not a tragic outcome — it had , thanks to the mercy of providence , a fortunate outcome — but it had an outcome which is not one which ah statecraft should either aim at or be proud of having achieved . |
| 5 | His McLaren-Honda , which had not turned a wheel until two days before , did not miss a beat . |
| 6 | She started a craze for pearl chokers , which had not been seen in years . |
| 7 | He said a number of large economies found it difficult to commit themselves to targets which had not been properly explored and before the International Panel on Climate Change reports scientific evidence next year . |
| 8 | It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult . |
| 9 | He also made sure that all players were kept informed of decisions about team selection , which had not always happened before . |
| 10 | Most of the points had been raised before and those which had not been raised most certainly could have been . |
| 11 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 12 | Fear infected Americans with a mass hysteria which had not been seen since the Great Crash . |
| 13 | The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain . |
| 14 | After Hitler had again suggested in a speech in mid-March 1941 that Britain would be conquered and the war ended finally in Germany 's favour within the next year , people were heard to remark that ‘ the Führer had never held out a prospect of something which had not happened ’ , and that one could therefore unquestionably rely upon the imminent defeat of Britain and end of the war . |
| 15 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 16 | The woods kept by the woodwards were as a general rule also subject to the authority of the king 's foresters ; if the latter discovered a Forest offence there which had not been reported by the woodward , the wood was seized and the woodward attached to answer for his default . |
| 17 | Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I. |
| 18 | The Adult Education Regulations of 1932 addressed a major problem which had not been resolved under the Board 's 1924 Regulations . |
| 19 | Illness related to pregnancy which had not |
| 20 | Apart from their undoubted strengths in these matters , the Germans have also been motivated by the belief that Germany 's ( and Europe 's ) disunity was an unnatural state which had not existed in the past . |
| 21 | The Vienna telephone system , which had not been greatly damaged in the war , most certainly did and each of the four occupying powers used it . |
| 22 | In this way the Union successfully mobilized the population to take control in a way it had never done before , and to identify and overcome both health and social problems which had not previously been tackled . |
| 23 | The city accountant had compared Derry 's acreage , which had not changed for a century , with other Northern Ireland towns . |
| 24 | The tumour shrank dramatically , in a way which had not been seen before . |
| 25 | She was kept on bed-rest , and an angiogram was taken which showed that there was blood seeping into the brain from aneurysms which Rose had in fact probably been born with , but which had not caused any problems previously . |
| 26 | Lord Scarman referred to violence and disorder ‘ the like of which had not previously been seen in this century in Britain ’ , while one Conservative MP summed up this orthodox reaction in a parliamentary debate ( on 13 April 1981 ) when he spoke of the riots as ‘ something new and sinister in our long national history ’ . |
| 27 | By the 1920s the Swiss jokingly complained that they needed a passport to enter some parts of their country because British skiers had taken them over , and by 1921 there were few Alpine slopes , skiable with contemporary equipment , which had not been tried out by enthusiasts . |
| 28 | Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter . |
| 29 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 30 | Elizabeth was prepared to put her trust in essential oils rather than resort to an even stronger preparation from her doctor who had already prescribed an ointment which had not worked . |