Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the failure to ratify SALT II both Superpowers adhered to the terms of the treaty ( they continued to do so until 1986 ) and in mid-1982 a new round of talks on strategic weapons began , called START , which aimed not simply to place limits on strategic arms but to reduce them . |
| 2 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 3 | It might make sense to argue that no bona fide university could exist which did not also conduct research . |
| 4 | Its success is partly explained by the fact that the intra-EMS exchange rate realignments that have been effected were deliberately confined to magnitudes which did not fully offset inflation rate differentials . |
| 5 | Democracy , then , in Syracuse , Akragas and elsewhere , meant the rule of a prosperous agricultural class , which did not necessarily regard Carthage as an enemy , or benevolent co-existence with Carthage as a sin . |
| 6 | ‘ It was especially bad for me because I played with a guitar that had a floating bridge , which did n't really help things . |
| 7 | The ‘ piecemeal ’ entry of the former colleges of education and some other colleges which had not previously secured polytechnic status was not quite along lines that the Robbins Committee had proposed , but the picture of higher education that had been developing from the early 1960s was now broader and more complex . |
| 8 | Purley depôt was put into use as a store for war damaged cars , plus a few cars in running order , which had not yet received windscreens to the driver 's platforms . |