Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] n't happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miracle cures for alcoholism did n't happen . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | If they 're not there with my quick changes in the wings the next scene does n't happen . |
| 4 | ‘ If that breaks down , exploitation does n't happen properly . ’ |
| 5 | The home has since taken action to ensure that such an accident does n't happen again . |
| 6 | The Big Bang does n't happen in space at all . |
| 7 | Changes do n't happen overnight but the feedback I get is there 's now greater visibility of managers and supervisors . |
| 8 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 9 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 10 | So the only surprise is that the explosion did n't happen before . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The soundalike things do n't happen very often . |
| 14 | These things do n't happen . ’ |
| 15 | Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time . |
| 16 | She thought again , Things do n't happen like this — not to people like me . |
| 17 | Now the Government is promising to take steps to ensure this scale of invasion does n't happen again . |
| 18 | ‘ When the duet did n't happen , I was n't disappointed , ’ she says . |
| 19 | But becoming a woman does n't happen in a vacuum ; girls are surrounded by a mass of images and ideas about the female body and female sexuality , about periods and breasts , and about what exactly ‘ a woman ’ means , in our society . |
| 20 | Marsden explained that hospital social workers had negotiated their role in discharge in the 1970s , when the Freeman Hospital had been built — ‘ discharges do n't happen without social services input ’ — and had then spread the same working practices to Newcastle 's other two acute hospitals . |
| 21 | Miracles did n't happen , but there were nice changes . |
| 22 | " Miracles do n't happen , so God does n't exist . " |
| 23 | The major Western degenerative diseases do n't happen in an instant — like infective diseases — but appear to creep up on us slowly as a result of years and years of bad eating . |
| 24 | ‘ There are so many loopholes , it 's a wonder things like the Farrah Quli incident do n't happen more often . ’ |
| 25 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 26 | The Kerry babies story did n't happen in the 19th century . |
| 27 | But that kind of thing does n't happen now . |
| 28 | Change does n't happen overnight so we must continue to address real concerns , use real science and aim for realistic targets . |
| 29 | The Museum will remain open to the public during the restructuring programme , providing many photographic opportunities — the sight of a Beaufort , Do 24 or Harrier in the RAFM car park does n't happen every day of the week ! |
| 30 | March 10 1990 OK , so the Australian Midnight Oil photo sesh did n't happen — but was there really any need to put Jack Barron 's noggin on the cover ? |