Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His words did not make sense at all .
2 It should be noted that the Guidelines do not form part of the Code and are not enforceable under the Bye–Laws of The Engineering Council .
3 At the Angel Road rail bridge on the A406 the cost of remedial work is put at £1.2 million , partly because the department did not install water-proofing until 1983 , about 15 years after the problems were identified .
4 This success in constitution-making did not bring success for the Virginia Company ; Sandys was able to keep up emigration , but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000 .
5 Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) .
6 Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong survival in oesophageal cancer .
7 Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames .
8 Nevertheless , it is clear enough that the realities of pre-war football do not find agreement with postwar nostalgia .
9 At the same time , the shake-out of British industry did not gather momentum before the late 1970s .
10 The Squigs do n't like daylight at all , and quickly become maddened by the sun .
11 All the nodes were manufactured and all but one was delivered ; however , the parties did not finalise agreement on the price or the terms to govern the contract and S retained the final node at its factory , pending agreement .
12 It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times .
13 But Britain and the Austrian Habsburgs did not follow suit until 1742 , and France and Spain not until three years after that .
14 Early reconstructions of the temple placed these on square pedestals , but it is clear from the coins that the pedestals did not form part of the base of the columns .
15 Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us .
16 Naturally , animals do not defy conservation of energy during running .
17 The traffic going to Mr McGiffert 's shopping complex did not wreak havoc on the Ringdufferin Road , nor would I expect the traffic going to the golf course to do so .
18 The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it .
19 Later emperors did not regard suzerainty in central Italy as having passed to the popes by these donations .
20 I replied to Ms Chevannes through the same newspaper thus : ‘ Generally , black kids do not demonstrate interest in school work and do not sink much enthusiasm into their efforts .
21 The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it .
22 It is clear that the proportion of abusers is very small ; it is equally clear that the vast majority of drinkers do not abuse alcohol at all .
23 Frogs do n't lay spawn in winter .
24 The court took the view that since the contract was formed at the reception desk , the notice in the bedroom did not form part of the contract , thus it could not be relied upon by the hotel as excluding liability .
25 However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern .
26 Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power .
27 The Oxford Record Linkage Study does not collect information about prescriptions but data are collected about admissions to hospital for peptic ulcer .
28 We agree with Anna Brake and Walter Krause that our study does not provide evidence for a continuing decrease in mean sperm concentration .
29 As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) .
30 As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) .
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