Sentence examples for had not contained from inspiring English sources
He also wondered why the Army had not contained the protesters more effectively.
While it had not contained a positive assertion of their truth, there was no suggestion that there was reason to doubt their veracity.
In 1988, there was a huge melt, which would almost certainly have flooded the southern marshes if the dam had not contained the worst of it.
Note the careful wording of Ipso's ruling: while the Star's version of the magazine's claims "had not contained a positive assertion of their truth, there was no suggestion that there was reason to doubt their veracity".
Security forces in Spain and Gibraltar were last night hunting for at least one IRA bomber, hand guns, and 140 lb of plastic explosives after the revelation that the car left in the colony by the three terrorists shot dead on Sunday had not contained a bomb.
The cardinal, facing his third bout with cancer, was dropped from a clinical trial group being given an antibody drug after scans showed it had not contained or reduced his cancer, according to the statement.
In the previous episode, the Doctor's tomb hadn't contained a body but a glowing shape, floating in mid-air: "My personal time-tunnel," he says.
In any year that hadn't contained Hawes's alternately demonic and defenceless DI Denton, Lancashire could clear space on the shelf for the statuettes already.
Her rage seemed focused on the idea that this year's Booker shortlist hadn't contained novels that were demanding enough of the reader.
Obermayer spoke about some of the criticism levelled against the Panama Papers — including the arguments that, because the first leak hadn't contained revelations about major American figures, the documents must have been fake, or some kind of conspiracy.
"The margin we are beginning with is significantly lower than it might have been if the roof had been totally blown off and we hadn't contained the damage," said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the campaign committee.
