Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually , she met people halfway , and tried not to make snap judgements about them . |
| 2 | Bathsheba tried not to show any expression on her face . |
| 3 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 4 | They 'd not favoured local women for security reasons . |
| 5 | He quietly vowed not to accept any food from the Tower buttery or kitchens . |
| 6 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 7 | A report on the shooting was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , but it decided not to take any action against Miss Hobson . |
| 8 | I decided not to go straight back to the house . |
| 9 | With conditions virtually guaranteed to remain fast , trainer Arthur Moore decided not to risk Soft Day in the Arkle Chase . |
| 10 | Luckily for Chris , since we decided not to do this song at all on this tour , Otis disappears from the tour overnight . |
| 11 | Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them . |
| 12 | She decided not to pursue this avenue of discussion , since , as she recalled the situation , it was not his morals but her own that had collapsed under the pressure of forced companionship with him . |
| 13 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 14 | The government after 1980 chose not to use this method of controlling bank lending and hence the figure for special deposits in Table 16.2 is zero . |
| 15 | In the interests of unity , Constantine deliberately blurred distinctions between Christianity , Mithraism and Sol Invictus — deliberately chose not to see any points of contention between them . |
| 16 | He chose not to take legal proceedings against his ex-partner and the company was put into liquidation ( second attempt at sabotage ) . |
| 17 | In a reaction with profound long-term implications President Truman promptly despatched American forces to support South Korea and , on the advice of Dean Acheson , his Secretary of State , deliberately chose not to seek congressional authorization for this act of war . |
| 18 | In the end one dared not mention any topic at all . |
| 19 | She dared not put that suspicion to the test . |
| 20 | The people of the neighbourhood dared not indict these malefactors before the Justices of the Forest , ‘ because of their power and malice , and the poor of those parts can not obtain justice for injustice inflicted upon them unless they first make ransom to the same evil-doers ’ . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the Unionist majority on the council voted not to submit these reports to the Ministry of Development , Londonderry County Council , or Londonderry Rural District Council , whose co-operation would be needed to extend the boundary . |
| 22 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 23 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
| 24 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 25 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 26 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 27 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 28 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 29 | Even such an excellent scholar as Wyld , who was extremely interested in the social motivations of change , did not give sufficient weight to the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 30 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |