Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] not [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " .
2 ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’
3 My mind had not adjusted to this new sight , though .
4 Sir Matthew Hale was to ensure , however , that the law did not proceed in this direction .
5 The minority of Labour members on the committee did not agree with this and issued their own minority report , but the most significant point about the conclusion is that the majority on the committee excluded at the outset the possibility of obtaining the evidence they would need to judge properly whether there was any abuse of power .
6 Boy did not keep in this box the letters that arrived once a week at his flat , regularly , on a Tuesday morning , letters which also began ‘ Dear Boy ’ or ‘ My Dear Boy ’ , but which were all signed ‘ Father ’ .
7 It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but
8 This rang alarm bells , for if , as was likely , the owner did not comply with this , the interior of the church , if not the facade , could be demolished for safety reasons .
9 However , the Colonel had not waited for this confirmation in writing and issued his certificate on 24 May , so the line opened on 26 May without ceremony , the company taking their pick of the 19 cars stored in Mitcham Road depôt .
10 It is indeed a shame that prominent scientists of the past did not share in this phenomenon .
11 Word-list style is a careful style in his terms ( but as we have shown in a number of publications , Labov 's predictions about the stylistic continuum did not work in this divergent-dialect community in the way that they had worked in New York City ) .
12 The bank did not appeal against this finding .
13 Binding was observed between antibody KG9 and rice and millet prolamins ; maize prolains displayed very weak bands and sorghum did not react in this system .
14 Nevertheless , the Minister did not think at this time that it was necessary to end the corporate status of Tanzania 's radio service .
15 The incidence of cancer did not rise during this time ( fig 2 ) .
16 Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order .
17 The 50 per cent threshold did not apply to this second round , in which Tamas polled 55 per cent of the votes cast , compared with 33 per cent for an independent candidate backed by the HSP ; the Hungarian Democratic Forum , which had won four by-elections in July and September 1989 [ see pp. 36830 ; 36895 ] , did not participate .
18 It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence .
19 His supporters , Baldwin said , thought that he should meet Parliament , ‘ and that former precedent did not apply in this instance , in which the question at issue was one concerning not two but three Parties , and that the House of Commons was the proper place for the choice of the Electorate to be made known ’ .
20 The observations so far are with programs where the designer had not concentrated on this aspect at all , but it seems very hopeful that valuable work in this area can be developed .
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