Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On appeal by the university and the Lord President , the Court of Appeal held that the visitor 's decision was amenable to judicial review but that the university had not exceeded its powers in dismissing the applicant and that the dismissal was valid . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | A National Consumer Council report suggests that only 31% of council and housing associations tenants were satisfied with the way in which their complaints were handled , and that one in six tenants dissatisfied with the service provided by their landlord had not made a complaint at all . |
| 4 | But if Ashton had not made these very distinctive changes in his ports de bras , the seasonal differences would not have been so notable . |
| 5 | In a decision which was widely predicted , Mr Patten has declared himself minded to uphold the view of the department 's inspectorate that Consortium Developments , representing several of the country 's major home-builders , had not made a sufficiently strong case for the development of 4,800 houses in what is an abandoned quarry and a conifer plantation . |
| 6 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 7 | The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway . |
| 8 | On these rides , sometimes of many miles , he found things with which Emmanuel Congregational church and Repton school chapel had not made him familiar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My stay in Government had not made me less radical but more so . |
| 11 | It was clear at breakfast , however , that God had not made Mr Cottle sate . |
| 12 | Every muscle in his body had ached as if stretched to its limit , but it had not made a scrap of difference to his height . |
| 13 | It seemed scarcely conceivable that the leadership had not made sufficient provision for the troops wintering in Russia . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 16 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 17 | So long as the old couple had not made over the farm , their middle-aged son remained a ‘ boy ’ : ‘ You can be a boy here forever as long as the old fellow is still alive ’ . |
| 18 | He had not made up his mind what to say to him , so spent time establishing a position in the Reading Room , under the high dome , which , however high , held , he felt , insufficient oxygen for all the diligent readers , so that they lay somnolent like flames dying in Humphry Davy 's bell-jar as their sustenance was consumed . |
| 19 | In the end the loss of the canoe had not made any difference as there was no shipping in the harbour anyway . |
| 20 | Asked why , knowing that such practices were illegal yet widespread , he had not made a stand against them , Sir Henry replied : ‘ Because we should not have got the players . ’ |
| 21 | If the Department of Industry had not made a direct grant to the company it is unlikely that SCAMP would exist . |
| 22 | They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America . |
| 23 | The Conservative administration had not made it good , said Borrie ; government had not created either the demand or the supply of credit . |
| 24 | He concluded that the council had not made a sufficient case to justify dismissing their Reporter . |
| 25 | Chelmsford coroner Malcolm Weir was told American police were still investigating the crime but had not made any arrests . |
| 26 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 27 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 28 | Isobel soon realized that she had not made , from her point of view , the wisest of marriages , but Peter was very kind to her and she did her best to make him happy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His remark , delivered , in a weary , satirical voice , had made me notice at once how young he was , though I would have noticed soon enough , I suppose , even if he had not made it . |