Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The error did not appear in the original text of Anthony Lee 's article , but resulted from changes made to the piece during the editing process . |
| 2 | The more radical critics within the party did nevertheless ensure that the reference to three types of school did not appear in the 1944 Act ( or , indeed , the 1943 Bill ) . |
| 3 | She did not mention that no more money would be sent — let Ellen discover that when the monthly money orders did not arrive in the punctual way they always had done . |
| 4 | William realised he would have to handle the unloading alone if the van did not arrive in the next few minutes . |
| 5 | I understand that about 1 billion people did not register in the recent census . |
| 6 | It did not sit in the hallowed tombs of Stormont or Leinster House , but went out to the border areas , saw the problems and listened to those involved . |
| 7 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 8 | Money did not exist in the Minoan scheme of things . |
| 9 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 10 | Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book . |
| 11 | As R. H. Tawney remarked , homework did not exist in the northern textile towns where the largest percentages of married women were employed full-time in factories . |
| 12 | He also did not compete in the European Open and will be absent from the Dubai Classic , which are also ranking events . |
| 13 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 14 | The pace did not slacken in the fifth . |
| 15 | In spite of a change in political outlook , the ravaging of national book treasures did not stop in the post-war era . |
| 16 | ‘ He did not paint in the ghastly but important details then . |
| 17 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |
| 18 | This trend did not start in the Eighties either : the old puffer and old motor movement were well under way when Prince Charles was a lad . |
| 19 | This original language does not seem to have had words for ‘ vine ’ or ‘ palm-tree ’ so it probably did not start in the Mediterranean . |
| 20 | The conversion of St James 's did not result in the classic consequence church conversion — namely , the creation of a central lightless dwellings access corridor between two lateral banks of living accommodation . |
| 21 | The main failings of the nation lay within its own boundaries , not in the outside world or such phenomena as bourgeois liberalism' , which the authors did not view in the same threatening light as did the more conservative party members . |
| 22 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 23 | The jackpot for the popular press comes when the defendant is both a teacher and a priest , although this does not come across in the headline ( e.g. SHAME OF KINKY HEAD , 55 ) Other professions also feature , which did not occur in the male assault cases ( e.g. DOCTOR JAILED FOR SEX ASSAULTS ; DENTIST FONDLES GIRLS ) . |
| 24 | Yet faster productivity growth did not occur in the early seventies . |
| 25 | Similar changes did not occur in the elemental diet group . |
| 26 | Progressive disease did not occur in the infected allograft when the corresponding native livers showed quiescent cirrhosis or massive necrosis . |
| 27 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Nearly two-thirds of the works which they have selected did not feature in the major retrospective surveys organised by the Tate Gallery in 1985 and by the Hirshhorn Museum , Washington , and the Metropolitan Museum , New York , in 1989–90 , and will not , as a result , be particularly well known outside the circles of scholarship and Bacon 's dealers . |
| 29 | Some of the areas mapped , however , did not feature in the published material . |
| 30 | ‘ He did not seem in the slightest upset or nervous . ’ |