Example sentences of "did not [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 2 | The court took the view , which was to be expressly repudiated in later cases , that although there was jurisdiction to entertain the action against the German corporation , this did not give the Californian court jurisdiction over persons or property in Germany . |
| 3 | It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river . |
| 4 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 5 | The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 . |
| 6 | For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east . |
| 7 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 8 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 9 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 10 | So it is clear that Bukharin did not make the elementary mistake that Rosdolsky attributed to him . |
| 11 | It did not make the general pool of jobs any larger . |
| 12 | ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Perhaps the boat with the most character — even though it did not make the final selection — was the PDQ ; an amateur effort that can be built at home from cheap parts . |
| 14 | Then , how long before somebody proposes giving points for undersized fish that did not make the undersize fish measure ? |
| 15 | The court held that the keeper was guilty of manslaughter , even though he did not owe the contractual duty to open and close the gate to the victim . |
| 16 | The House of Lords did not disturb the basic rule , but affirmed an exception . |
| 17 | Mercuric chloride was selected because it is a growth inhibitor , and Boyd found that homoeopathically prepared potencies of mercuric chloride enhanced the speed at which the diastase converted the starch when compared with controls which did not contain the mercuric chloride potency . |
| 18 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 19 | Although Sir Campbell did not expect the strong sales growth of the first half to continue , he anticipated satisfactory results for the full year . |
| 20 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 21 | He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war . |
| 22 | In his public pronouncements at least , Aragon was convinced that the Nazi-Soviet pact did not invalidate the mutual assistance treaties in existence between France and Poland on the one hand , and France and the Soviet Union on the other . |
| 23 | Soviet spokesmen accepted that Afghanistan need not be neutral in relation to third countries engaged in a war which did not involve the Soviet Union as a party . |
| 24 | did not involve the appropriate bodies like Community Health Councils or the Trade Unions . |
| 25 | When he finally launched the attack , he did not inform the Central Committee in Moscow . |
| 26 | The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 27 | Even so , this did not cover the full cost of the project , confirming that some form of subsidy was essential . |
| 28 | On the whole , respondents did not favour the single coursebook in the way that courses in the United States do . |
| 29 | This did not obviate the clear need to retrench in the face of failing numbers and , during the year , the staff of the Institute was reduced from 117 to 106 . |
| 30 | The differences in absorption of PEG 414 did not reach the preset level of statistical significance . |