Example sentences of "it do not [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's social theory , although it did not advance in any detail beyond the analysis of capitalism as a mode of production to a study of the state and politics , did none the less sketch a conception of political development which was assimilated into the doctrines and practices of a large part of the European labour movement . |
| 2 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 3 | It did not accord at all with the normal context of school life . |
| 4 | It did not succeed in this objective . |
| 5 | Habershon 's scheme was only eleventh on Angell and Pownall 's and it did not appear at all on Burn s , g while Rochead and Dwyer 's schemes were both rejected by Angell and Pownall for slightly exceeding the stipulated site . |
| 6 | As far as the aristocracy were concerned , it did not lead to fundamental changes in the social structure ; where wealth changed hands , it was generally within the existing dominant class . |
| 7 | The decline in profitability may have resulted in an unwillingness of British business to invest in industry in this country , but it did not lead to any scarcity of capital for investment . |
| 8 | The Home Office refused to reveal whether the man was seeking asylum and said it did not comment on individual cases . |
| 9 | It had not occurred to him that he was naked , but it did not matter in any case what she thought . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 11 | WIMBLEDON star Jeremy Bates finally found time to wed his childhood sweetheart yesterday — because it did not clash with any tennis dates . |
| 12 | Thus it did not finish until two o'clock in the morning … |
| 13 | It may be that the Sri Lankan system of crime control was more fair than most others , that it did not discriminate against those least able to defend themselves , and that the ‘ real ’ profile of Sri Lankan lawbreakers was not much different from those of other societies . |
| 14 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 15 | It did not respond to earlier or subsequent corrective action using the ailerons , and the nose pitched past the vertical in the ensuing dive . |
| 16 | Thus Forrestal reflected in July 1946 that the United States might have to tolerate much that it did not like about British conduct and influence in the Far East . |
| 17 | This meant that , as a county , it was significantly smaller than it later became , and that ( in particular ) it did not include for local-government purposes the city of Oxford . |
| 18 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 19 | But it did not develop from German Romanesque . |
| 20 | It did not follow from this that the confession should therefore be excluded , however . |
| 21 | Helens ' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem . |
| 22 | It did not consider in any detail the relative merits of a currency union . |
| 23 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 24 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 25 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 26 | In this case the ECJ ruled that Germany could not ban the importing of Cassis de Dijon ( a French alcoholic beverage ) , on the grounds that it did not conform to German rules and regulations governing the sale of alcoholic beverages . |
| 27 | In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society , but it did not secede until 1898 . |
| 28 | It did not come into general use until the latter half of the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged . |
| 30 | So that when John suggested they should spend Sunday ‘ watching the fun ’ down at the Railway Office , it did not seem at all out of key . |