Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Security Council , meeting in closed session on Feb. 26 , agreed not to call for a ceasefire until Iraq had agreed to comply with all 12 relevant resolutions . |
| 2 | In Wisconsin the Assembly agreed not to vote on an abortion measure , thereby killing a revised bill for the time being and allowing a stringent , but inoperable , law imposing criminal penalties for doctors performing abortions to remain in force . |
| 3 | Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet . |
| 4 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 5 | The case ended in April 1992 when the company decided not to appeal against an appeal court ruling made three months earlier [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 6 | I refer to my memorandum dated 19 September 1990 which informed you that the Personnel Committee , at its meeting on 11 September 1990 , decided not to agree to a closure of Regional Council workplaces during the 1990/91 festive season . |
| 7 | Like Mr Rocard in 1988 , Mrs Cresson decided not to call for a vote of confidence on her new government 's programme , outlined to parliament on May 22nd . |
| 8 | He decided not to go to a chain chemist 's . |
| 9 | He chose not to read for a fellowship and once it became clear that he was no longer in the race for academic honours he was not required to take all the examinations . |
| 10 | However , the case is significant in showing that the court did not regard as an abuse of the court 's process , a second prosecution whose principal objective was to obtain redress or a second victim . |
| 11 | A member of parliament unable to gratify a constituent 's wish for a cadetship for his son had to explain that failure , and if age did not intervene as a barrier to future prospects , the politician would be expected to indicate when a successful outcome might be anticipated . |
| 12 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 13 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 14 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 15 | No more than one in ten of the items we submit are printed and even the report of Peter 's adoption did not appear until a week later and only then after complaints to the Editor . |
| 16 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 17 | They did not talk for a minute or so , studiously examining every inch of the tablecloth or the other diners . |
| 18 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 19 | The Church did not grow as a result of Protestants reacting to evidence of increased Catholic demands and assertiveness . |
| 20 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
| 21 | But the new interest shown by socialists in the old anarchist nostrum of ‘ the general strike against war ’ did not rest on an acceptance that only the proletarian revolution could prevent war . |
| 22 | He did not complain about a friendship betrayed . |
| 23 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 24 | This finally led John Hunter , the eminent surgeon , anatomist and classifier of monsters to produce a seminal paper ( An account of an extraordinary pheasant , Hunter , 1837 ) in which he proposed that differences between the sexes were of two kinds : those involving the sexual organs themselves , which were evident from birth and did not change during an individual 's lifetime ; and those that did not develop until the animal approached breeding age , such as differences in body size , plumage and in the tendency to be fat which he termed ‘ secondary ’ marks or characters of sex ( Hunter , 1837 , 1861 ) . |
| 25 | On the dining-room walls today hang generations of Macleods ; Boswell and Johnson were entertained by the 23rd chief , Norman , who did not marry for a decade after the travellers stayed here . |
| 26 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 27 | The farmer did not reply for a moment , then he went up between the cows and gently rubbed Blossom 's forehead " Aye , this is the one , Jack . " |
| 28 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |