Example sentences of "do not [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers was expressed in relation to the size of the total labour force in the establishment , it did not appear that larger establishments were more likely to make use of temporary workers than smaller ones [ see Table 3.4 ] .
2 Jack did not realise that vertical lines are always straight up and down even when you are standing on a hillside .
3 They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts .
4 They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’
5 Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge .
6 ( Just as , in the case of my own work , I did not anticipate that some teachers would begin every lesson with ‘ What do you want to do a play about ? ’ .
7 Ivica Racan , a ( Croatian ) member of the party presidium , said that this meant affirming the freedom of a citizen 's political association , keeping self-management strategic to socialist development , but did not mean that political pluralism " should be reduced simply to the question of a multiparty system , because this is only one of the possible forms of political pluralism " .
8 It should be noted that , while the budgets and weight of food items were calculated per prisoner , this did not mean that each inmate was given an individually weighed portion : the uncooked food was simply weighed in bulk on leaving the stores for the kitchen .
9 Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it .
10 Unacceptable standards of behaviour and attainment at Tyndale did not mean that all schools following an enquiry or discovery approach to learning were similarly failing .
11 However , this did not mean that negative covenants are always irremediable covenants .
12 This did not mean that this factory produced every single component used in the computers .
13 This point was made even clearer in a later case involving the Chief Justice , in which he stated that a ‘ breach of the Act or the Code did not mean that any statement made by a defendant after such breach would necessarily by ruled out .
14 Being together in this way did not mean that either party treated the other with excessive informality but it did mean that teachers knew pupils well .
15 Although Jarman is an avid painter ( he exhibited at the ICA in 1984 ) , he did not feel that that medium could extend beyond ‘ one person 's thing ’ .
16 He did not mention that one definition of a composer 's talent is that he can write music that compels an audience 's attention .
17 In total only four library authorities did not say that some money was available to be spent , from one source or another , although some named very small amounts :
18 Loss of data was therefore small , and analyses with the last available assessment for each subject did not indicate that any bias had been introduced .
19 I saw no bodies , although I did not doubt that many people had drowned .
20 I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe .
21 Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for .
22 As a result of interviews with local people , he said , the mission did not believe that any detainees were moved from prison camps ‘ to another place prior to the mission 's arrival ’ .
23 If I did not believe that those changes would benefit patients , I would not have approved the application .
24 While he could understand the ‘ natural anger and grief ’ of the child 's parents , he did not believe that medical negligence was a factor in Stephen 's death .
25 He did not realize that each suck marked an extra notch of disapproval , a further step towards the precipice of his own irrevocable downfall .
26 The judge did not find that undue influence had been established .
27 This canonisation of Woonerven did not imply that other traffic restraint tools were not being investigated .
28 This did not imply that interested groups acting in this context could not be effective , as , for example , the resistance to Khrushchev 's proposed educational reforms showed .
29 They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism .
30 The jury which made the award did not know that 56-year-old Susie Quintana had lost her long fight for life the day before .
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