Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end one dared not mention any topic at all . |
| 2 | The people of the neighbourhood dared not indict these malefactors before the Justices of the Forest , ‘ because of their power and malice , and the poor of those parts can not obtain justice for injustice inflicted upon them unless they first make ransom to the same evil-doers ’ . |
| 3 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 4 | From a study of closely-dated deposits on Hadrian 's Wall , John Gillam did not date any of these vessels earlier than c . |
| 5 | ‘ Because he did not deliver all the papers . |
| 6 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 7 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
| 8 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 9 | On first acquaintance I found the keyhole cockpit did not give such a positive feel to the boat as the smaller cockpit rims of glass boats but none of the students noticed this . |
| 10 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 11 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 12 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 13 | This rather uncharitable remark possibly arose out of jealousy as Miller certainly did not give all his attention to the gentry , although , as Kalm said , the aristocracy did seek his advice . |
| 14 | It emphasized the problem of housing and jobs , but beyond looking at forms of area management and pleas for much financial help , the reports did not give all that clear a lead on policy . |
| 15 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 16 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 17 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 18 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 19 | He did not give much for Beales 's chances of getting in and out of the building unremarked . |
| 20 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 21 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 22 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 23 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 24 | Even such an excellent scholar as Wyld , who was extremely interested in the social motivations of change , did not give sufficient weight to the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 25 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 26 | If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . |
| 27 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 28 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 29 | The official return did not give any details about the population on that , or any other , day , but there was a breakdown of the characteristics of all prisoners admitted during 1987 . |
| 30 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |