Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 2 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 3 | Anna did not go to the front door but round the back . |
| 4 | Both of these places are within walking distance of Docklands but I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 5 | But I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 6 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 7 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |
| 8 | After Bosworth Brampton did not return to the English court . |
| 9 | The medical profession did not contribute to the new crusades nor was there any resurrection of the medico-moral alliance . |
| 10 | Shared care did not contribute to the multiple linear regression model . |
| 11 | Thankfully , they did not lead to the same tragic results . |
| 12 | The judge referred to the provisions of section 10(9) and the meaning of ‘ harm ; ’ he did not refer to the procedural rules . |
| 13 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 14 | The level of IgG and IgA anti-granulocyte antibodies did not correlate to the total serum levels of IgG and IgA ( not illustrated ) . |
| 15 | The Rev Anthony Freeman said he felt a great sense of relief when he admitted to himself he did not hold to the traditional view of God . |
| 16 | The plaintiffs claim that the defendant did not succeed to the secure tenancy of 336 , Stocksfield Road because he had not resided at 336 , Stocksfield Road for 12 months before his brother died . |
| 17 | Sharpe did not respond to the small jest . |
| 18 | Rob did not subscribe to the popular image of a bomber pilot , did n't talk about wizard prangs or pieces of cake , or sport a handlebar moustache . |
| 19 | The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege . |
| 20 | Arts-based and classically trained , he was convinced that professional experts of Simon 's calibre did not conform to the new conception of the broad-based administrator . |
| 21 | South Yorkshire in particular did not conform to the normal definition of a conurbation . |
| 22 | This fact obviously did not conform to the elitist views of ‘ fitness to rule ’ of most racial nationalists . |
| 23 | There would , therefore , be the anomalous situation that half of the Scottish Bus Group would be subject to a statutory form of supervision which did not apply to the other half and that would be unsatisfactory . |
| 24 | Happily , such conditions did not apply to the other universities checked . |
| 25 | How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World . |
| 26 | Equally , enhanced redundancy compensation schemes , such as had been negotiated for the regular workers at several of the organisations to which we spoke , did not apply to the temporary workers , who ( unless they have at least two years ' service ) were also ineligible for any statutory payments . |
| 27 | Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " . |
| 28 | A decree signed by Bashir on Feb. 1 introduced a new penal code based , as was the previous one , on sharia law , which was to come into effect on March 22 , but which did not apply to the three southern regions ( now states ) " for the time being , pending the establishment of elected assemblies there to deal with the issue " ( an official information document as quoted in the Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 15 ) . |
| 29 | He said the regulations did not apply to the whole building , only to the alterations carried out . |
| 30 | This certainly did not apply to the next great dog of influence on the British show scene : Ch. |