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

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1 Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page .
2 While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period .
3 Even gentlemen who did not normally display interest in babies sent anxiously to inquire about its progress .
4 ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy .
5 Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents .
6 Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting .
7 As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’
8 As he points out , 18th-century Britons did not even define violence in our terms .
9 Home Office reports on football-ground safety in 1924 did not even raise hooliganism as an item on the agenda .
10 In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] 1 Ch 227 Megarry V-C held that an express contractual restriction on disclosure did not also prohibit use of the information ( the plaintiff was , in fact , granted an injunction against use on the grounds of the defendant 's duty of good faith but this duty will not exist in all cases ) .
11 Koshland also found that the depolarisation and ACh acted in similar but parallel ways ; habituation to , say , ACh stimulation did not also produce habituation to depolarisation .
12 They need to remember that even Jesus did not primarily draw attention to himself , but taught men that they could find the Father through the way he showed , the truth he revealed , and the life he lived .
13 It did not simply cover recruitment from within the circle .
14 THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage .
15 But he did not simply dismiss religion on this score ; rather he kept returning to reflect upon it .
16 He did not actually suggest communication between continents with the aid of geostationary satellites , but if he was taken now to a satellite ground-station he would not be numbed with astonishment .
17 Competitiveness did not readily become part of the common parlance of British industry .
18 The five-page statement , delivered to radio stations in Medellin , did not specifically claim responsiblity for the blast .
19 If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria .
20 Inclusion of respiratory rate greater than 60 or 70/min or refusal to breast feed , grunting , chest retractions , or cyanosis on examination did not significantly improve prediction in these infants .
21 The addition of 100 µl faecal fluid to a biopsy specimen in culture did not significantly affect metabolism of butyrate ( biopsy specimen+ faecal fluid 49.7 ( 10.1 ) nmol/µg protein/h , biopsy specimen+Krebs-Henseleit 52.2 ( 5.8 ) ) ( mean ( SD ) , five experiments per group ) ( 95% CI=-18.1 to 22.5 ) or glutamine ( biopsy specimen+faecal fluid 5.7 ( 1.1 ) , biopsy specimen +Krebs-Henseleit 6.8 ( 2.2 ) ) ( 95% CI=-3.8 to 2.2 ) .
22 However , Friedman did not explicitly introduce rationality of expectations into the natural rate hypothesis , and indeed appeared to favour the use of an adaptive expectations model , at least for the US at the time he was writing .
23 This freedom did not necessarily find expression in forms which were in conflict with the ruling patrician elite .
24 This did not usually involve medication as the following interviewee 's experience of Detention Centre illustrates :
25 I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done .
26 We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner .
27 But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery .
28 There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters .
29 When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me .
30 However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed .
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