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

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1 They found that patients with the highest serum gastrin concentrations did not necessarily have the highest enterochromaffin like cell counts .
2 Analysis of acid output including or excluding these three subjects did not significantly alter the results .
3 This advance could , in fact , have placed the BEF in a dangerous salient , for strategists did not yet comprehend the crippling defensive effectiveness of machine-guns and artillery .
4 Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language .
5 Three of these were cleared on 16 March but , believing them to be floating mines , the Allies did not completely sweep the area .
6 But if this large population of unwilling immigrants did not immediately worry the Lebanese , the emergence of Gamal Abdul Nasser 's Arab nationalism could not be ignored .
7 He went on to explain that the rules of the game could easily be encompassed if some rooms were left without windows , and if the facades did not accurately represent the layout of the interior .
8 the crews of the cutters did not always see the completed puzzle , and for obvious reasons were only given sufficient information on a need-to-know basis .
9 On the other hand , while the High Authority required the support of the Council in , for example , any attempt to limit output because of overproduction or when seeking an equitable distribution of supplies during a shortage in output , the Council of Ministers was inhibited to some extent because the national governments did not directly finance the ECSC .
10 Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews .
11 For the Greeks did not merely invent the concept of democracy .
12 Measures to deal with problems did not always meet the underlying needs : sometimes they ignored them , sometimes they reflected total ignorance of them .
13 Too often , where land ownership was fragmented , development was slow to occur : statutory bodies were reluctant to sell unwanted land , and small , private owners did not often have the expertise and resources to benefit from financial incentives .
14 The reason for a lot of these premature deaths was that their owners did not sufficiently understand the importance of cash flow .
15 Yet if his ideas and perceptions did not always reach the page , they undoubtedly entered the minds and imaginations of the many lucky enough to converse with him .
16 Senior officers did not even visit the ground before approving the ground control plan , and the club was criticised for lack of rescue and medical equipment , and inadequate signposting to steer any latecomers away from full terraces .
17 US firms did not meekly follow the foreign policy line of their government against their own interests .
18 Hotels-to-racing group Ladbroke 's dramatically reduced profits did not unduly worry the City which approved of its increased dividend payout .
19 About 70% of the reflections were phased by this method ; altering the various cutoff criteria in the programs did not noticeably improve the map .
20 After the meeting , Van-DĂșnem announced that donors had pledged $10,000,000 , adding that the " promises made by donors did not fully reflect the Angolan government 's needs " .
21 The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing .
22 Nonetheless , the Americans did not immediately appreciate the urgency of the matter .
23 The most important point to recognize , however , is that these developments did not substantially undermine the essential relationships underpinning capitalist economies .
24 Strangely , outside these dates , no other of his pupils has been traced : Oxford University and the other Cambridge Colleges did not then list the schools of their entrants .
25 The shire and hundred meetings did not simply serve the royal will .
26 That Sri Lankans were involved in much litigation and that the judicial system was based on alien principles can not be denied , but contemporaries did not successfully explain the link between these two facts .
27 The Allies arrived one day by boat and threatened dire consequences if their wishes did not rapidly become the law of the land .
28 The seamen were concerned only with their ship , the revenue men did not fully understand the sea and the conflict of interests resulted in too much wasted time .
29 The police did not only employ the law of criminal procedure in their tactical battle against the striking miners .
30 These severe measures did not always produce the desired results .
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