Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance . |
| 2 | But Edward just did n't seem interested . |
| 3 | Captain Barton MacLane just did n't like private eyes . |
| 4 | The captain and Mr Trelawney still did not like each other , and the squire did n't try to hide it . |
| 5 | More investigation may well reveal that manufacturing industry simply did not pay enough to get the best people . |
| 6 | Freud certainly did not hold this assertion to be true . |
| 7 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 8 | By every law of the genre , the death of the tall weed should have vindicated the life of the other , as the death of the grasshopper vindicates the ants , but the story somehow did not end that way . |
| 9 | The CC purposely did not make detailed proposals for change , preferring to leave these for discussions with the appropriate government Ministries . |
| 10 | This was 4 months before the St. Louis meeting mentioned above , so the publication evidently did not stimulate much excitement in the United States . |
| 11 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 12 | Three patients originally infected with HBV alone did not develop serological or biopsy evidence of HBV graft infection at 8 , 16 , and 17 months after transplantation , respectively . |
| 13 | The results of the first two years really did not warrant such astronomical sums and Dennis knew that the following year he would have to pay Prost a sum equal to his evident worth . |
| 14 | Alison Kraemer simply did n't seem conscious of it . |
| 15 | But the principle to which we have adverted was not presented to his mind in its simple form ; and the point certainly did not undergo much consideration . |
| 16 | Blue Biros just did n't look right . |
| 17 | ( 5 April 1778 ) Mozart evidently did not find this type of work rewarding : |
| 18 | Either Mrs Hnatiuk really did not know much about Hank or she was just being perverse . |
| 19 | Firstly , in seven of our patients , the dialysis bags were expelled from the rectum along with rectal water ; in the others the rectum presumably did not contain more than small amounts of fluid . |
| 20 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 21 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 22 | Half the people there did not know that . |
| 23 | The nursing staff definitely did not do that . |
| 24 | This rather uncharitable remark possibly arose out of jealousy as Miller certainly did not give all his attention to the gentry , although , as Kalm said , the aristocracy did seek his advice . |
| 25 | Romania simply did not have billions of dollars for the Ceauşescus to purloin . |
| 26 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 27 | ‘ We get sick of hearing the excuse ‘ I did n't stand a chance ’ , I always think the kid definitely did n't have one and that makes me angry . |
| 28 | Numbers alone did not mean automatic economic and political strength . |
| 29 | The cloze scores alone did not suggest this , however , and one is bound to ponder the significance of this . |
| 30 | hoping that the awning above did n't choose that moment to disgorge its contents over them . |