Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the expected tourist bonanza did not happen and now the finance company wants its money and the family have until Thursday to find backers . |
| 2 | Whole schools do not happen because the head alone has a greater view of the school , they occur because everyone 's view of the school is extended and embraced ( Southworth 1988:327 ) . |
| 3 | Miracle cures for alcoholism did n't happen . |
| 4 | As to suggestions that if the deal did not happen , it could throw doubts on the future of the bank , he said : ‘ I think that is not an unfair conclusion . ’ |
| 5 | and we were geared more to progress in the education system where the industrial change in the other countries did n't happen at the same time and that they needed now a younger ag a younger age group to keep the , the industrial system going |
| 6 | The sowing of the seed of the gospel does not happen just with a look , any more than the sowing of barley occurs by the farmer going out and smiling at his field . |
| 7 | If they 're not there with my quick changes in the wings the next scene does n't happen . |
| 8 | ‘ If that breaks down , exploitation does n't happen properly . ’ |
| 9 | The bankruptcies did not happen , but he bought the Daily Mirror into ATV when bankruptcy looked possible , after the traumatic first year . |
| 10 | Indeed , since the claim is that punishment does not happen , questions of ‘ proportionality ’ simply do not arise . |
| 11 | The home has since taken action to ensure that such an accident does n't happen again . |
| 12 | The lesson from Chernobyl is not only that the public requires governments to react more effectively next time , but also that there is a need to ensure that a Chernobyl-type accident does not happen again . |
| 13 | The Big Bang does n't happen in space at all . |
| 14 | Changes do n't happen overnight but the feedback I get is there 's now greater visibility of managers and supervisors . |
| 15 | Of course , what became this major achievement did not happen overnight . |
| 16 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 17 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 18 | That 's what we got the union for , to make sure that these things did not happen . |
| 19 | So the only surprise is that the explosion did n't happen before . |
| 20 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It will take a long time , we are just emerging from the dark ages , but things do n't happen if you do n't make them . |
| 22 | ‘ The soundalike things do n't happen very often . |
| 23 | These things do n't happen . ’ |
| 24 | Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time . |
| 25 | She thought again , Things do n't happen like this — not to people like me . |
| 26 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Thousands of Soviet television viewers yesterday heard Boris Yeltsin , the Communist Party rebel , warn of a ‘ revolution from below ’ if radical economic changes did not happen within a year . |
| 27 | Now the Government is promising to take steps to ensure this scale of invasion does n't happen again . |
| 28 | Derek Bevan , whilst pointing out that the quick throw-in does not happen very often in a game situation , is convinced that , overall , it would encourage a more open style of play . |
| 29 | If one or the other does not happen , bankruptcy stares every team in the face . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When the duet did n't happen , I was n't disappointed , ’ she says . |