Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he did not specify how this was to be achieved , he promised not to increase the unpopular goods and services consumption tax ( GST ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Good , ’ said Caspar , meaning it , and Fenella , still curled into her uncomfortable corner , crossed her fingers and tried not to disturb the shining folds of the Robes all about her . |
| 3 | Local commanders said the situation in Azici was difficult , but they vowed not to surrender the two towns . |
| 4 | He was right , and she determined not to let the sleeping arrangements upset her . |
| 5 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 6 | Washington agreed that a military solution was not an attractive option , and recognized that Britain dared not risk the economic repercussions of a break with South Africa . |
| 7 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 8 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 9 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 10 | Walter Luff did not make the same mistakes as his predecessor , and paralleled the extensive improvements on the tramway by a redevelopment office of the bus system , including the sacrifice of two heavily-trafficked tram routes to bus operation . |
| 11 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 12 | Managers did not expect the two pieces of equipment would compete with each other . |
| 13 | did not involve the appropriate bodies like Community Health Councils or the Trade Unions . |
| 14 | The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 15 | The sample was picked from telephone directories which did not cover the poorer segments of the electorate . |
| 16 | In any case they did not inherit the doctrinaire restrictions of their elders . |
| 17 | According to press reports the HMIP did not detail the environmental measures it deems necessary , but they are thought to include flue gas desulphurization equipment . |
| 18 | Geraldine did not watch the Golden Girls tonight because it clashed with News at Ten . |
| 19 | The regulations , introduced by Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok , gave the police and other security forces wide powers of arrest and detention , but did not restrict the news-gathering activities of the press . |
| 20 | This time , Franco did not leave the warring factions to fight among themselves . |
| 21 | The enlargement of the EC had , quite simply , come at the worst possible time so far as global economic conditions were concerned , and did not bring the dynamic improvements that had been hoped for . |
| 22 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 23 | The Special Branch man remained hidden behind the screen for prosecution witnesses , but did not wear the heavy socks and mocassins or use the voice distorter . |
| 24 | A Swiss referendum vote on Dec. 6 against ratification , while it did not dissuade the other participants ( including Liechtenstein ) from proceeding , did necessitate " technical " modifications to provide for an 18-member EEA . |
| 25 | This would help ensure the poorer countries did not repeat the environmental mistakes of the northern hemisphere as they pursued economic development . |
| 26 | However , the absence of a genus does not of itself preclude the operation of the rule : it is an indication that the parties did not intend the general words to be restricted ( Chandris v Isbrandtsen-Moller [ 1951 ] 1 KB 240 ; Skillion v Keltec Industrial Research [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 27 | His present class teacher and the section XI teacher both agreed that he was a slow learner , but felt that he did not exhibit the behavioural problems nor degrees of learning difficulty that characterised many of the children in the school . |
| 28 | He stressed that the decision did not affect the proprietary rights of the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu , and emphasized that if a change in law was required to make the policy effective , this would need the full approval of the legislature . |
| 29 | The rebellion of 1381 and its subsequent repression did not affect the underlying problems of the economy , notably those posed by the decline in population . |
| 30 | Analysis of absolute birth weight in kilograms did not affect the reported relations . |