Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 2 | With artist 's impressions and scores of posters aiding the hunt for the rapist , the 250 tip-offs did not lead to an arrest . |
| 3 | He proposed that barrackers should be thrown out of the ground if they did not respond to an appeal for fairness over the loudspeaker . |
| 4 | The surrender of part did not amount to an eviction of the assignee , it resulted from an agreement between the assignee and the landlord : one can see details of that in the report of the Divisional Court decision ( 1888 ) 21 Q.B.D. 101 , 102 . |
| 5 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the accused 's behaviour did not amount to an intention permanently to deprive the owner of the information . |
| 7 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 8 | JANUARY 1st dawned in Czechoslovakia and the world did not come to an end . |
| 9 | Elton alleges the reporter used a helicopter to spy on him at his Atlanta home , and threatened to run a negative story if he did n't agree to an interview . |
| 10 | That er this group wanted to work with other groups which had n't come to an understanding . |
| 11 | ‘ If we had n't come to an agreement , you 'd be paying for my time as well . ’ |