Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 2 | Until the 1988 Act , all a person had to do to gain copyright protection for a design was to make a drawing of the design in such a way that the design could be recognized from the drawing ( as long as the design did not relate to a spare part ) . |
| 3 | Even the death of George I , in June 1727 , while en route to Hanover , did not lead to a new Jacobite invasion and he was succeeded , without any public disturbance , by his 43-year-old son . |
| 4 | But the disappointment of pacifist hopes of winning the Labour party to a genuine democratic diplomacy did not lead to a new rupture in the Party . |
| 5 | For Labour , Mr Donald Dewar said the figures did not amount to a real increase and took no account of cuts in local authority spending in recent years . |
| 6 | But singing songs and letter writing , though powerful antidotes to homesickness , did not amount to a decent education , as Anna Essinger was well aware . |
| 7 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |
| 8 | 368 did not apply to a periodic tenancy and declined to follow Doe d . |
| 9 | did not belong to a dangerous species ) and he knew of its vicious characteristics . |
| 10 | As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered . |
| 11 | This negative element can be felt in ( 32 ) above in the fact that this sentence implies that he did not appeal to a higher court even though he could have . |
| 12 | Of course , this problem could be eased by reducing the number of constituencies in Scotland and Wales , but since Labour has overwhelming strength in Wales and majority support in Scotland , the idea of cutting down their representatives in the Commons did not appeal to a Labour Government . |
| 13 | It followed that the interference by the English courts did not correspond to a social need sufficiently pressing to outweigh the public interest in freedom of expression . |
| 14 | In 1982 , 78 per cent of cases in which pre-hearing assessments had been requested did not proceed to a full hearing . |
| 15 | The tribunal has heard from another former staff member that residents were sometimes punished with meals of bread and water and confined to their rooms , if they did n't conform to a strict regime . |
| 16 | At this there was a muted growl of support from those in the hall who had not succumbed to a heavy lunch . |
| 17 | Didier had not taken to a foreign language and was having trouble keeping up in class . |
| 18 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |