Example sentences of "did not [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this Presbyterian nationalism did not normally lead to Jacobitism , we do see a brand of Scottish Whig Jacobitism during William 's reign , centring around the person of James Montgomerie of Skelmorlie . |
| 2 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 3 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 4 | Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans . |
| 5 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 6 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 7 | Yet this piece has much that is freshly inventive and original , even if these were epithets that , alas , did not readily spring to mind with regard to the performance it received . |
| 8 | Individual authors could write on the decline of national intelligence but public debate did not necessarily lead to action . |
| 9 | Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal were roped into Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by Lord Louis Mountbatten , along with that lateral thinker Geoffrey Pyke ( New Scientist , 30 July 1981 , p 302 ) , the inventor of the giant iceberg ship Habbakuk and many other projects which did not quite come to fruition . |
| 10 | He quotes examples , such as Ley Rock , near Tintagel , and Bonsall Leys , high up on the Derbyshire moors , to demonstrate that the word did not always refer to pasture . |
| 11 | The arrival of a railway in a town did not always lead to expansion . |