Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher : |
| 2 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 3 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 4 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 5 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 6 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 7 | You did not go through a religious ceremony with him . ’ |
| 8 | I did not go into a perfect situation . |
| 9 | His great virtue was that he did not rely on a single visit , but frequently returned after a period of years and was able to comment on progress — or lack of it — and the way in which new legislation was being implemented . |
| 10 | Until the 1988 Act , all a person had to do to gain copyright protection for a design was to make a drawing of the design in such a way that the design could be recognized from the drawing ( as long as the design did not relate to a spare part ) . |
| 11 | Upon his death in 1984 , his magnificent Cubist collection did not rest in a private museum , let alone in a wing named in his honour . |
| 12 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 13 | This time , it did not dissolve into a coughing fit . |
| 14 | Wright it was established that a director did not stand in a fiduciary relationship with his shareholders . |
| 15 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
| 16 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 17 | She heaved out a great sigh and did not move for a full fifteen seconds : the sergeant watched them tick past , marked by the flick of the thin red hand of the electric clock on the wall . |
| 18 | Sajudis did not compete as a political party , but backed candidates from several parties including the newly independent Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL — see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ) , as well as independent candidates . |
| 19 | Sometimes it seemed as if Charley did not distinguish between a live body and a dead one . |
| 20 | Even the death of George I , in June 1727 , while en route to Hanover , did not lead to a new Jacobite invasion and he was succeeded , without any public disturbance , by his 43-year-old son . |
| 21 | But the disappointment of pacifist hopes of winning the Labour party to a genuine democratic diplomacy did not lead to a new rupture in the Party . |
| 22 | The effect of the introduction of the 1987 expanded AIDS case definition was much less in England and Wales than elsewhere and did not result in a sharp rise in incidence among homosexual/bisexual men ( figure ) . |
| 23 | Lack of appropriate data systems , lack of involvement of clinicians and a basically top-down , finance-led approach , did not result in a great deal of success for this initiative . |
| 24 | The 1857 Divorce Act , which removed divorce from church jurisdiction , did not result in a rapid increase in the divorce rate . |
| 25 | Preoperative radiation treatment did not result in a significant prolongation of survival ( surgery group 8.5 months ; radiation plus surgery group 10.5 months ) . |
| 26 | The preoperative radiotherapy did not result in a significant prolongation of survival time . |
| 27 | Even the establishment of the fascist regimes in Europe , while it involved the use of violence on a considerable scale , did not result from a massive armed confrontation or civil war . |
| 28 | I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather . |
| 29 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 30 | There are cases in which prosecutions failed because the nuisance did not interfere with a sufficient number of the public . |