Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible . |
| 2 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 3 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 4 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 5 | Otherwise dates did not appear on western coinage until the thirteenth century . |
| 6 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 7 | The cat did not return until late afternoon . |
| 8 | Marryat was not avoiding actuality : his authentic plots did not extend to emotional exploration . |
| 9 | However , as has been reported in International Crossroads , they have been awarded the 1993 World Cup Sevens , a decision which did not meet with general approval , and as there is a rebuilding programme at Murrayfield only 38,000 fans will be able to watch the tournament on each day . |
| 10 | These stocks were attractive to banks and discount houses but did not meet with strong demand elsewhere and no more were issued subsequently . |
| 11 | The partial compensation found in the fertility of the black and brown immigrants of the Commonwealth countries who had sent over 3 million people into Britain since 1962 did not meet with universal enthusiasm , as the evidence from the Race Relations Board frequently suggested . |
| 12 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 13 | They came to office unsullied by royal service or political intrigue , and with the political principles and ideas of the schools fresh in their minds , but Stratford had won office by his service to the crown ; he was one of those who managed the early wool loans and spent the opening months of the French war recruiting allies and spies on the continent ; he may have resisted and condemned the malpractices of tax collectors , but he did not protest against royal taxation , burdensome as it was , before these crisis years . |
| 14 | Bentley 's group theory postulated that the study of politics was the study of the conflict between groups , although his work did not refer to organised interest groups only but to groups with shared views . |
| 15 | He was arrested in 1661 and 1662 but did not engage in seditious activity until 1663 , when he became involved in the Farnley Wood or Yorkshire plot . |
| 16 | Miranda , while not vain , did not suffer from false modesty . |
| 17 | In a previous study , fundectomy did not result in pancreatic hypertrophy . |
| 18 | If he was exploited by landowners and the merchant and artisan classes , this did not result in total dependence on them . |
| 19 | That ‘ damned morality ’ which disturbed Lord Melbourne did not result from religious enthusiasm only . |
| 20 | People esteemed some men more than others , but their influence then was personal , and their command , if it was obeyed , did not depend on formal office and resulted in no treasury . |
| 21 | This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes . |
| 22 | The movements analysed by Loeb and his successors did not depend on previous experience . |
| 23 | Thus Forrestal reflected in July 1946 that the United States might have to tolerate much that it did not like about British conduct and influence in the Far East . |
| 24 | Ford et al ( 1986 ) carried out a study in a psychiatric setting in the USA arising from their concern that many confused elderly people , particularly those in advanced stages of Alzheimer 's disease , did not respond to verbal communication and staff found it difficult to understand their attempts at communicating . |
| 25 | Of the two patients who did not respond to prolonged treatment one had extremely high initial serum HBV-DNA levels ( >1000 pg/ml ) , while both patients had near normal aspartate aminotransferase levels at entry . |
| 26 | He had suffered severe migraine which did not respond to conventional treatment . |
| 27 | She saw unshadowed earth in yellow light , more vines , new shoots of what she did not recognise as young maize . |
| 28 | The biscuit packets travelled on a conveyor over this machine , and if a packet did not fall within pre-set weight limits it was pushed off the conveyor , later to be opened and good biscuits fed back into the line . |
| 29 | Because an army 's main aim may have been the devastation of land , the destruction of its produce , and the seizure of moveable property , there can be little doubt that war 's chief victims were those who , if they did not live within reasonable distance of a defended town or garrisoned castle , ran great risk to their personal safety . |
| 30 | Thus , for eurobond firms London has offered a pool of suitably trained labour ; in recent years , low levels of personal and corporate taxation ; a reasonable tax regime for financial instruments ( e.g. ability to issue bearer eurobonds that effectively pay interest gross and absence of turnover taxes — a particular handicap for the Swiss ) ; a supply of suitable premises ; the absence , since 1979 , of exchange controls ( although initially exchange controls were seen as an advantage , since eurobonds did not interfere with onshore sterling markets ) ; prudential and monetary regulations that have not historically tended significantly to raise the cost of funds , distort or prevent competition among domestic or international intermediaries ; English law ( widely accepted as a basis for international financial business ) ; the English language ; and political stability . |