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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bankruptcies did not happen , but he bought the Daily Mirror into ATV when bankruptcy looked possible , after the traumatic first year . |
| 6 | Indeed , since the claim is that punishment does not happen , questions of ‘ proportionality ’ simply do not arise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Of course , what became this major achievement did not happen overnight . |
| 9 | That 's what we got the union for , to make sure that these things did not happen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If one or the other does not happen , bankruptcy stares every team in the face . ’ |
| 13 | The Goering flight did not happen , but even as an agent , Edward Carrington was never able to find out why . |
| 14 | Mr Reed maintains that , even if such a late take-up did not happen often , ‘ it was common currency among merchant bankers as something that could happen ’ . |
| 15 | Moreover if a topic does not happen to have the ontological status ascribed to it , it is still possible to refer to it identifyingly qua topic with the phrase " the same A " . |
| 16 | The question of questions was at bottom this : the nineteenth century , with its partial proof of evolution and its axiom that miracles do not happen , enabled the chance of historical enquiry into the life and work of Jesus through the testing of ancient documents . |
| 17 | Because of this modern definition of miracles many people seem to think miracles do not happen very often today . |
| 18 | Only too often Old Testament criticism , especially historical criticism , has been marred by the introduction of unjustified rationalistic assumptions ( e.g. that miracles do not happen ) . |
| 19 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ HOSTILE takeovers do not happen here , because of our culture ; they are against our way of doing business . ’ |
| 21 | It can not be proved that the virgin birth did not happen . |
| 22 | The operation did not happen until the end of June that year . |
| 23 | ‘ In the light of his report I will decide what further action needs to be taken to ensure that such an incident does not happen again . |
| 24 | Although these cases do not happen often , if you are assaulted or threatened by a client in the ES takes it very seriously . |
| 25 | Herodotus did not happen to visit Jerusalem . |
| 26 | The forecast upsurge in takings did not happen . |
| 27 | Even now , she thought , if ordeals like that first night in Nice did not happen again , it might yet be possible . |
| 28 | Lord O'Hagan , the group 's social affairs spokesman , said : ‘ I object to being misrepresented and I want to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again . ’ |
| 29 | That sort of thing does not happen too often . |
| 30 | I can not go beyond what I have said , except to make it clear once again that if and when it is clear that a further legislative change will materially assist in ensuring that this sort of thing does not happen again , we will be ready to make it . |