Example sentences of "did not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed .
2 The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement .
3 The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily .
4 Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be .
5 This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach .
6 Some colleagues wrote to us to point out that the format of the main LITE questionnaire did not contain room for the kind of statements and categories which could display the situation in which they were working to develop the competence of their colleagues , both to enhance the strategies for promoting community languages in their area , and to raise general awareness of the deep educational implications of linguistic diversity .
7 While she would have preferred to manage alone , Ashley did not relish slip-sliding down the slope in an undignified arm-flailing fashion , nor on her bottom .
8 Merymose did not involve Huy in the search that followed .
9 A county court judgment did not carry interest under the Judgments Act 1838 ( R v Essex County Court Judge ( 1887 ) 18 QBD 704 ) , but the Lord Chancellor is empowered under s 74 of the 1984 Act to order by statutory instrument that county court judgments shall carry interest .
10 The correlation did not reach significance in the offspring of the hyperglycaemic mothers .
11 They welcomed US President Bush 's recent decision to cancel development of new tactical nuclear missiles ( the follow-on to the Lance programme ) and artillery for deployment in Europe , but did not reach agreement on the withdrawal of existing nuclear artillery or short-range missiles before talks with the Soviet Union began .
12 The monopoly was normal practice , and the boundary chosen was intended simply to make sure that the Company did not go east of the Bay into areas claimed by New France ; nobody had any idea that the river system of the Bay gave the Company an area — known as Rupert 's Land after Prince Rupert , the Governor of the Company — that covered millions of square miles to the west .
13 The helper obviously did not do part of the actions denoted by the infinitives in these sentences .
14 It did not do justice to the biblical doctrine of atonement .
15 ‘ What I have tried not to do is big black drawings of steel works , ’ said Mr Crowley , who was pleasantly surprised that his pre-conceived image of lots of chemical plants and an over-used river did not do justice to the scene .
16 The community planner saw the NSLC as a strong and uniting force which did not create conflict between the neighbourhoods .
17 Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had .
18 Chinese influence on all aspects of Japanese society and politics was immense , and while this did not preclude friction between the two countries , nor the development of indigenous Japanese cultural traits , many of the institutions , ideas and attitudes important to Japanese history owe a great deal to China .
19 Despite initial SPD threats to block ratification , SPD leaders said on March 9 that their desire for improvements did not preclude approval of the treaty .
20 First , where he knowingly assists in a dishonest and fraudulent design or breach of trust undertaken by the insider , notwithstanding the fact that he did not acquire possession of the trust property ( ’ knowing assistance ’ ) .
21 The Czechoslovak authorities maintained throughout that all such arms deals were intended to help counter " problems of unemployment " , and that they did not represent part of the Czechoslovak Army 's own weapons stocks but were newly-manufactured weapons .
22 Customary by the mid-thirteenth century , largely due to Innocent 's introduction of such a scheme , such taxes , however , did not bring money into the papal coffers but were granted to the leaders of the crusades , through there was a widespread belief that money collected for the Crusade by Philip the notary was doing exactly that , and in 1202 Innocent ordered an investigation .
23 This success in constitution-making did not bring success for the Virginia Company ; Sandys was able to keep up emigration , but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000 .
24 Important though these duties were , they were fairly routine in character ; they did not bring Clanvow to the notice of a wider public .
25 This private proposal from a grouping of 10 of Britain 's biggest house-builders did not form part of the structure plan for north-east Hampshire , and was opposed by the county council as well as local residents .
26 The council contended that the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting that the road verges did not form part of the highway by the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner .
27 Early reconstructions of the temple placed these on square pedestals , but it is clear from the coins that the pedestals did not form part of the base of the columns .
28 While individual officers may indeed have been aware of this work , consideration of it did not form part of the policy-making .
29 The court took the view that since the contract was formed at the reception desk , the notice in the bedroom did not form part of the contract , thus it could not be relied upon by the hotel as excluding liability .
30 The Court of Appeal held that the oral statement overrode the exclusion clause which therefore did not form part of the contract .
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