Example sentences of "did not [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an objective would be ill-founded if the process of integration did not aim also at the Community 's complete monetary integration which can only be achieved through the establishment of a European currency union . |
| 2 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 3 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It is to Foinavon 's eternal credit that he did not refuse either at the melee when he had every excuse to or when he was out on his own especially when he was tiring , ’ Buckingham said . |
| 5 | He was able to achieve this amount of leisure because he did not intervene much in the work of the Departments . |
| 6 | Certainly Mr Lamont did not perform well at the hustings ; arguably his Budget last month did not in retrospect maximise the opportunities , limited though they were . |
| 7 | Their cheer did not go far in the brittle morning air but it pleased her . |
| 8 | So they did not go anywhere near the doctor . |
| 9 | ‘ I should be sorry for him if he did not land more in the thorns than in the flowers — that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 11 | 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect . |
| 12 | Many companies in the Heavy Electrical Equipment conspiracy did not dismiss ‘ guilty executives ’ ( for they had merely been doing their job ) but even those who did , did not do so with the intention of ruining them . |
| 13 | Speculation has raged as to whether he did privately support rearmament but the likelihood is that he did not do so before the start of the Korean War . |
| 14 | The paintwork , a dark brown , was peeling and the walls , unusually , had been hurriedly and superficially covered with an ugly beige paper which did not cling properly to the plaster . |
| 15 | They did not talk much in the litter on the way back to Taheb 's house . |
| 16 | Kylie resisted Bush 's offers of live glory because , as she had felt earlier when PWL had first extended pressure on her to go on tour , it did not fit properly into the strategy mapped out for her . |
| 17 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 18 | When microbes were first cultivated and investigated , John Burdon Sanderson ( 1828–1905 ) , later Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford , observed that bacteria did not grow readily in the presence of certain Penicillium moulds . |
| 19 | And machine minding 's star did not burn brightly in the Murphy firmament . |
| 20 | Signora De Amicis , carried along by her own enthusiasm , did not realise why they were laughing , and , being thus taken aback , did not sing well for the rest of the evening . |
| 21 | This stage of county court procedure was introduced in 1972 and was part of the response to criticism that the county court did not cater adequately for the resolution of small claims . |
| 22 | The main findings of this study can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) patients with adenomatous colorectal polyps generally showed a significant increase in the cytoproliferative activity of the most superficial portions of the rectal crypts compared with controls ; ( b ) this difference was primarily the result of an appreciable upward shift of replicating cells in patients destined to suffer from recurrent polyps ; the proliferative pattern of patients whose polyps did not recur after initial polypectomies were essentially similar to those of controls ; ( c ) the proliferative pattern of flat rectal mucosa did not change appreciably during the follow up period regardless of whether polyps recurred or not . |
| 23 | The number of heavy goods vehicles using the roads did not change much over the past 10 years . |
| 24 | The variance of the distribution of the intervention rates did not change significantly during the study : the ratio of the largest variance to the smallest one ( F m a x ) was 1.7 for caesarean sections , 2.6 for epidural analgesia , and 3.3 for forceps and vacuum extractions . |
| 25 | Mortality did not change significantly during the study . |
| 26 | The values of f' and f were refined in the program and did not change significantly from the starting values . |
| 27 | They did not wear much in the way of body protection or helmets ( early Frankish shield bosses were at first classified as helmets by early archaeologists ) . |
| 28 | He did not sleep much on the plane . |
| 29 | The all-rounder was immediately taken off by captain Jeff Teiman and did not bowl again in the match . |
| 30 | Darby said the machine had obviously had heavy wear and not been well maintained : the ‘ d ’ , for example , was slightly twisted and the capitals in ‘ MacQuillan ’ did not sit firmly on the line . |