Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Marryat was not avoiding actuality : his authentic plots did not extend to emotional exploration . |
2 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
3 | Bentley 's group theory postulated that the study of politics was the study of the conflict between groups , although his work did not refer to organised interest groups only but to groups with shared views . |
4 | Ford et al ( 1986 ) carried out a study in a psychiatric setting in the USA arising from their concern that many confused elderly people , particularly those in advanced stages of Alzheimer 's disease , did not respond to verbal communication and staff found it difficult to understand their attempts at communicating . |
5 | Of the two patients who did not respond to prolonged treatment one had extremely high initial serum HBV-DNA levels ( >1000 pg/ml ) , while both patients had near normal aspartate aminotransferase levels at entry . |
6 | He had suffered severe migraine which did not respond to conventional treatment . |
7 | The Court of Appeal had held that s. 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , permitting discrimination in relation to retirement , operated , and the provision of travel facilities in this way did not amount to unlawful discrimination ( see [ 19791 I WLR 754 ) . |
8 | ( The fountain did not play : Esther was not a magician , and college rooms did not rise to running water for people , let alone fountains . ) |
9 | The Ladies ' Golf Union conformed with the Royal and Ancient decision that competition in all British open amateur events should use the big ball ( 1.68 inches ) , but it did not apply to international team events . |
10 | That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . |
11 | It did not apply to sexual intercourse under certain circumstances , as where the husband 's conduct was of a particularly outrageous nature . |
12 | — accepting that arsenal limits imposed did not apply to sea-launched cruise missiles ( SLCMs ) because of the difficulty of verification ; |
13 | The growing influence of the Left among middle-class intellectuals did not correspond to increasing militancy in the working class nor to growing anti-Conservatism among the voters . |
14 | ‘ We would not be living up to our responsibilities if we did not listen to ordinary party members . ’ |
15 | Then you obviously did n't go to public school like I did . |
16 | You did n't go to Bound Zoo |
17 | ‘ You would n't feel that I was letting you down if I did n't go to veterinary college ? ’ she asked — and felt the happiest she had done in weeks at his reply . |
18 | Unlike his mother and Rose-Ann he did n't object to burnt toast , so he buttered it as it was , not pausing to toast the other side of it . |
19 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
20 | So he did n't listen to odd jibe about our millionaire friend , and he did n't ask them to pay . |
21 | Perhaps the fiddle sheet did n't run to outside entertainment more than once a month . |