Example sentences of "[noun pl] did not [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 However , the actual time taken to cover a kilometre will almost certainly have varied substantially between road types , thus it is possible that their subjects did not actually have more to report in the shopping areas .
2 Locking up formes did not really require much physical effort either , nor , once you had been shown how to do it , very much skill .
3 Normality ratings did not clearly support this position .
4 Because public expenditure was involved , the judges did not always get all the changes they wanted .
5 The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident .
6 There were small but measurable amounts of [ I ] bFGF bound to the intact mucosa and treatment with sucralfate for seven days did not significantly influence this .
7 Economists said trade figures did not yet reflect much of the yen 's recent rise against the dollar but the effect of the yen 's rise could figure in the March and April trade figures .
8 The organisation 's chief executive , Howard Jordan , was optimistic that the latest figures did not merely represent another false dawn , despite evidence of continuing decline in the heavy engineering and foundry sectors .
9 The ‘ middle class ’ activists did not necessarily support all the actual policies of the national party , but what they did support was the form of policymaking , and the right of the leadership to make policy .
10 Even by the URA 's own criteria of decline ( population decline , low home ownership , increase in the African-American population , ageing population , low income , substandard housing and high crime rates ) the North Side neighbourhoods did not always exhibit such symptoms .
11 Doctors did not always provide this information on claim forms so times were available for only 1591 ( 80.0% ) of the visits analysed .
12 The advisers did not always accept these arguments and pointed to the fact that they were comparing what they had seen with other schools .
13 They found that the two measures did not separately hold any predictive value , but in combination they discriminated well between families in which a child developed some schizophrenic symptoms and those whose child remained free of such symptoms .
14 Contemporary commentators did not always note such rules of restraint .
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