Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was finding he resented people who did not care for Wyvis Hall as much as he did .
2 There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede .
3 Only 4 amino acids did not match with the human sequence , whereas 9 amino acids did not match with mouse peptide .
4 The story was by one Paul Hiebert and did not appear in book form until 1947 .
5 The poor spawning facilities were responsible for the lack of smaller bream , and the lack of an excess of natural food made sure a successful brood did not grow to specimen weight .
6 In comparison , the time required to make random insertions to direct-linked balanced tree files did not change with overflow percentage .
7 Basal CCK concentrations did not change during octreotide treatment .
8 Imo 's career as an inventor did not end with potato washing .
9 Before the Second World War the UK with its huge coal exports was a substantial net exporter of fuel , but coal exports did not recover from wartime disruption and the UK became a net importer of fuel .
10 The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made .
11 She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise .
12 Those working at Grange Terrace and Granton , however , did not move to Murchison House until 1976 , when the Grange Terrace premises were made available for staff primarily engaged on projects related to hydrocarbon geology .
13 One interesting study from Edinburgh University , published in The Lancet , found that men with angina had lower levels of vitamins A , C and E in their blood compared with a similar group who did not suffer from heart disease .
14 The highest percentage of useful material I could find any editor to admit to was around 25 per cent and some quite literally stated that they did not bother with PR material at all .
15 Once more he struggled to maintain a line that did not drift towards leg stump .
16 My claim to fame nowadays is that I am one of the seven people who did not vote for world peace .
17 Those patients who did not respond to dilatation treatment were advised to have surgery .
18 ( E ) Plasmid DNA extracted with or without silicone was double-digested with two different enzymes ; silicone extraction did not interfere with enzyme digestion .
19 It is true the funding arrangements at the time of the research did not allow for holiday pay , sick pay , and so on .
20 John may have reciprocated that feeling when very young , but the warmth , at any rate on his side , did not survive into adult life .
21 No tax is payable on any gifts made seven years before death , an exemption that did not apply to capital transfer tax .
22 For example , Professor Peckham quoted a director of public health who said that people did not ask about research evidence even when making difficult decisions .
23 Most of them did not escape from wartime secrecy and were not properly developed until the war was over .
24 Steve Mosely did not train on Thursday night and Ian Brown 's ankle is still sore , but they are the only worries as the Clarets bid to avenge a 5–3 defeat in Hampshire .
25 The average rank of the first hit in the sequence of words for use in forming islands was 4.8 , and the rank did not increase with sentence length
26 One of them contained a silver sixpence which Frankie turned in his fingers but did not remove in case Sweetheart , in her present bad mood , took it away from him .
27 It was sometimes described as Congregationalist and sometimes as Baptist and did not insist on adult baptism .
28 She pledged that the Government would safeguard those that did not opt for trust status , but she expected this to be a minority .
29 Probes from the co-ligated sequence 3' to the poly(A) recognition site ( Fig. 3 ) in DN10 did not hybridize to mouse RNA .
30 4 ANNUAL STATISTICS If you did not attend on QT day you will receive a computerised print-out showing details of your last year 's classes ( between 1 January and 31 December and include short courses , holiday classes , irregular specialised work etc . )
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