Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] did not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the notion of virtue implicit in such hospitalities did not include any expectation of a permanent elimination of differences in wealth . |
| 2 | Such ideals did not match all tastes though . |
| 3 | As delivered , these cars did not carry any destination equipment , but new cars delivered in 1906 and subsequently , had wooden destination boxes on tall stanchions above the ends of the upper deck . |
| 4 | However , these antihistamines did not block all the actions of histamine , and , in particular , they did not affect its ability to stimulate the stomach to secrete acid . |
| 5 | The fact that the postwar treaty had been a dead letter for many years did not worry either party . |
| 6 | None of this had any direct relevance to the discovery of drugs , and one may assume that many pharmacologists did not follow these developments . |
| 7 | In some cases setting was criticized because it was argued that it was producing underachievement in certain pupils , although many teachers did not accept this . |
| 8 | Although some of the people who became involved had been radicalised by the Vietnam War , many others did not share that experience . |
| 9 | Much to the disappointment of the Board , surveys conducted in 1940 produced negative results : typical of them was the meticulous investigation , in late 1940 , of a group of 1,119 London County Council children evacuated to rural areas ; comparing them with an equivalent group of London children in 1938 , the study concluded that ‘ a period of evacuation of several months did not cause any significant difference in the rate of growth of evacuated children ’ . |
| 10 | Most borrowers did not anticipate this ; indeed , a 1989 survey by the Office of Fair Trading shows that only 37% of borrowers gave any thought at all to the likely future movement of interest rates when they took out a loan . |
| 11 | Most respondents did not foresee any major changes in their way of life in the years ahead and saw no particular difficulties in continuing their present activities … |