Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 2 | A file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , but the DPP decided not to press charges against the individuals concerned . |
| 3 | When God in his wisdom chose not to bless women with the same convenient appendage through which men pass water , he left them with little choice but to strip off and squat . |
| 4 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 5 | Christopher did not give details of the US aid programme , but he offered some general ideas . |
| 6 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 7 | Legislation on public health , sanitation and industrial conditions did not contain prescriptions for the direct regulation of sexual conduct . |
| 8 | Despite all the above , Feare ( 1971 a-quoted by Cramp et al. , 1983 ) did not regard dog-whelks as an important food source for oystercatchers in England-the low success rate of attempts to break dogwhelk shells , coupled with the small quantity of food eventually obtained , renders it an uneconomical prey . |
| 9 | However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town . |
| 10 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 11 | In general the West Midlands advisers who responded to the survey did not blame managers for the lack of funds , but nor did they appear optimistic that more money would materialise . |
| 12 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 13 | Though he rose to his feet , Nathan did not shake hands with the newcomer . |
| 14 | Apart from Lineker claiming Taylor had a personal vendetta against him , he also suggests Taylor did not treat players in the proper manner . |
| 15 | Any female who did not prefer males with the deleteriously exaggerated trait would indeed produce fitter sons than other females ; however , no one would mate with them . |
| 16 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |
| 17 | First the law of restitution had developed to deal with actions for the recovery of money paid under a mistake of fact or certain forms of compulsion but did not encompass actions for the recovery of money that was not due . |
| 18 | Jack did not like strangers in the house , so there was no regular charwoman , only the obliging person who could be summoned at intervals when Jack was away . |
| 19 | Yanto did not like Sundays as a rule . |
| 20 | In the case of a totally sealed labour market , new employees would only be drawn from the families of existing staff , and efforts would be made to ensure that individuals did not seek places outside the firm . |
| 21 | It is true that the Victoria and Caledonian experiments did not introduce women into an existing office , but neither were they exclusively all-women affairs . |
| 22 | Unfortunately Wisden at that time did not put symbols against the name of the wicketkeeper to tell if someone else was roped in to keep . |
| 23 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 24 | It concluded that Community law did not impose requirements concerning the granting to ships of flag rights . |
| 25 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 26 | The ‘ Dublin ’ trolley masts which did not have caps over the swivelling tops , were found to let in water and the top parts were soon fitted with waterproof canvas socks . |
| 27 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 28 | In Rayigam Korale , between Pasdun Korale and the coast , a local network survived , but it did not import cattle from the Southern Province because the Kalu Ganga made transportation from that direction impractical . |
| 29 | These oesophageal distensions did not cause relaxations of the upper oesophageal sphincter but elicited secondary oesophageal persitaltic contractions , which in turn resulted in clearance of gas from the oesophageal body . |
| 30 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |