Example sentences of "did not [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In reality , from the study of the videotapes made of the language performance of most of the 150 people who took part , the language level actually being achieved did not bear a great similarity to the BSL as used by deaf people .
2 However , a report prepared over five years by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , released in August , concluded that the USA did not bear a disproportionate share of the NATO burden .
3 Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses .
4 Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] .
5 The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East .
6 Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) .
7 City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible .
8 The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM .
9 Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that :
10 I did not want a post-modernist confusion .
11 She did not want a prolonged discussion , she wanted only that he should go away .
12 Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets .
13 She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes .
14 More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job .
15 Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed .
16 Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers .
17 Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job .
18 There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job .
19 For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) .
20 He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be .
21 It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands .
22 Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense .
23 In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose .
24 He did not make a great impact beyond his own office .
25 ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked .
26 ‘ He did not make a strong impression , ’ says Tony Rex .
27 As things work out in FI , contracts to that effect or not — and Reutemann was to have his troubles with Alan Jones on that score later — the Number One position in any team is pragmatically judged on results , and though Niki did not make a brilliant start to the 1977 season , he did re-establish his hegemony within the Ferrari team by the South African Grand Prix .
28 The FIA court of appeal did not make a final decision in Paris on Thursday after a three-hour hearing to consider Mansell 's evidence .
29 He did not make a settled return to London until 20 October .
30 ‘ None of them were unwilling participants and my client did not make a handsome profit . ’
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