Example sentences of "[conj] it did not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 2 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 3 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 4 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 5 | Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel . |
| 6 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 7 | The European Court overrode Italian civil law and stated that it did not consider these posts to be in the public service . |
| 8 | Only a few months ago , Neath borough council complained that it did not have enough money for housing . |
| 9 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 10 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 11 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 13 | Up to a point diversity is good ; local government would be useless if it did not permit some variety and flexibility in provision . |
| 14 | Our Report would not be credible if it did not acknowledge these differences and explain our response to them . |
| 15 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
| 16 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 17 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 18 | But it did not get any better . |
| 19 | But it did not garner any reductions in repayments due . |
| 20 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 21 | But it did not provide enough segregated schools and enough women teachers to educate the girls separately from the boys in all cases , and it did not have the strength to insist that girls should be educated in mixed schools by male teachers : most Libyan parents would have objected strongly to laws compelling mixed education . |
| 22 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |
| 23 | In the true spirit of liberal compromise , the eps league combines both these measures , leaving LLoyds Abbey Life the winner even though it did not top either individual table . |
| 24 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |