Example sentences of "it did not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the work of Fama et al on the significance of scrip issues indicated that the issues themselves did not tell the market anything it did not already know from its analysis of the company 's performance during the 30 months before the split . |
| 2 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 3 | Although completed and ready to fly in October 1945 ( when short hops are reported to have been undertaken ) it did not officially fly until April 24 , 1946 on which date the other Soviet jet , the MiG–9 , also took to the air shortly before the Yak . |
| 4 | It did not simply result in a situation in which the Liberals won 2.2 per cent of the Commons seats in return for 19.3 per cent of the national vote since Labour also sneaked into office with only 37.1 per cent of the votes cast — less than the Conservative total . |
| 5 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 6 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
| 7 | It did not spontaneously emerge with the need to solve specific management problems ; those management problems had first of all to be defined and identified . |
| 8 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 9 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 10 | Asked if he realised he 'd left Becky behind , Harper replied , ’ It did not really go through my mind . |
| 11 | It did not seriously occur to her to approach Canon Wheeler himself . |
| 12 | In The Family , Sex and Marriage he was careful to retain an open mind on affective individualism , emphasizing first that it was not necessarily the way of the future , family change not being linear , and second , that it did not necessarily result in greater happiness than other forms of family organization . |
| 13 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 14 | Certainly , if this was what was necessary , it did not subsequently prove beyond the wit of the ASW or psychiatrist to point this out . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the Polish bourgeoisie was of mainly foreign origin ( it did not therefore identify with the nationalist tradition ) and constituted the leading segment of the empire 's industry , dependent upon the markets of the whole empire , not a lesser Poland . |
| 16 | It did n't even start until 11 p.m . |
| 17 | It was so big it did n't even fit inside the shed . |
| 18 | It did n't even look like a café . |
| 19 | ‘ It did n't officially go on the market . |
| 20 | It did n't really go with the rest of it did it ? |
| 21 | But I mean it did n't really go with the rest of the things . |
| 22 | ‘ Genesis was n't really a group to start with ; it did n't really exist at Charterhouse . |
| 23 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 24 | So it , it did n't really matter to me . |
| 25 | It did n't really seem like that at the time . |
| 26 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
| 27 | But it did n't always make for an easy life . |
| 28 | Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side . |
| 29 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 30 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |