Example sentences of "[conj] they did not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although they did not offer any pathological data , they suggest that dilatation and curettage may be inappropriate in many cases and that guidelines should be developed to agree on the most appropriate patients for the procedure . |
2 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
3 | When the Charter was granted in 1844 , graduates of the London and Edinburgh schools became members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , although they did not obtain exclusive right to the title ‘ Veterinary surgeon ’ . |
4 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
5 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
6 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
7 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
8 | The Rouhanyoun faction protested as some 1,100 prospective candidates were eliminated by the committees on the grounds that they did not meet minimum educational and other standards . |
9 | However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place . |
10 | lt appeared that they did not represent national cultural concepts in Japan . |
11 | The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals . |
12 | Andrew Collins QC , for the prosecution , said the papers , which include correspondence between a minister and senior civil servants , were immune from disclosure on the grounds of public interest , and that they did not contain any material relevant to the case anyway . |
13 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
14 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
15 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |
16 | It is almost impossible to believe that they did not have contemporary events in mind , and as Æthelred was certainly not victorious , the implication is that he was unwise . |
17 | It comes to this : some pits have been given a fighting chance — albeit in a contracting market — that they did not have last year . |
18 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
19 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
20 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
21 | A further 63% indicated that they did not use such a source . |
22 | That the police ‘ did n't give any ground ’ suggests controlled restraint , while the disclosure that they ‘ handed out as much physical punishment as they received ’ indicates that they did not use excessive force . |
23 | Only three SSDs said that they did not use residential facilities outside their area . |
24 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
25 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |
26 | Osman 's followers would have to get together ; and Owen would see that they did not find that very easy . |
27 | In a letter to the Independent , a representative of the Irish Freedom Movement alleged that , at the annual anti-internment march in London on 6 August 1988 , there were over thirty arrests , with the charges ranging from threatening behaviour to affray and some accused being ‘ granted bail only on condition that they did not attend political meetings or marches ’ . |
28 | The authors therefore examined the data for explanations as to why some women were more vulnerable than others , or , expressed another way , why some women seemed resilient to , or protected from , or were able to cope with adversity such that they did not develop clinical depression . |
29 | Others indicated that they did not need any more qualifications for progress at work . |
30 | John 's response is to say that they did not need false teachers , or any other teachers for that matter : ‘ you have been anointed ( lit . |