Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the passenger figures did not reach those of the Winter Gala but circumstances were rather different . |
| 2 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 3 | There was a Department of Trade and Industry Question Time last month and a debate last week , but the Opposition did not answer those questions . |
| 4 | Radio and TV did not change those news values . |
| 5 | He also expressed confidence that US aid would be resumed " within a few months " , claiming that the suspension had been due to the disproportionate influence exercised in the US Congress by the extreme right-wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms , but that Helms 's views did not represent those of the administration . |
| 6 | Changing fashions in popular natural history did not affect those who were doing research in botany and zoology directly , except through the demand for books . |
| 7 | But the confusing plethora of separate joint boards on the fire service , strategic planning , waste disposal and other matters which succeeded them suggests that abolition did not achieve those ends These boards are now under no direct electoral control , but are instead made up of nominees from often compulsorily participant councils . |
| 8 | He gathered his own particular circle of close advisers around him and was prone to discount views that did not reflect those prevailing in his own circle . |
| 9 | Then , in the final sentence , they are saying that since the girl did not meet those criteria they felt ‘ unable to override ’ the statutory provisions in section 6(3) ( a ) , i.e. , they felt that in her case there was not sufficient to justify them requiring an over-subscribed school to accept her contrary to their admissions policy . |
| 10 | The Nassau agreement , however , did not silence those influential Americans who continued to believe that British policy and thus Anglo-American relations were in need of serious reappraisal . |
| 11 | He had no need , no need at all to say that , beautiful though he might have mentioned he thought her , she just did not hold those sort of charms for him — which was what he more or less did say when he drawled , ‘ Would you think me dreadfully ungallant should I mop my brow and tell you — that 's a relief ? ’ |
| 12 | The fact that unemployment did not result prior to deflationary policies suggests that real wage rises did not exceed those required to adjust scrapping to the pace of accumulation and labour supply . |
| 13 | Moreover , her Ladyship did not read those cases as laying down an income bracket suitable for the needs of every former wife of a millionaire . |
| 14 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 15 | Or did not recognise those plots she had . |
| 16 | She , Phoebe told herself , did not play those stupid games any more , she was direct and straightforward . |
| 17 | In these circumstances , most Libyans , being realistic and pragmatic , did not apply those elements of Qaddafi 's ideology which asserted the independence of local communities , the abolition of central government , to resolve practical problems . |
| 18 | Does he recall that he replied that he did not consider those circumstances grim enough to undertake an economic initiative for Paisley ? |
| 19 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
| 20 | However , he did not enter those offices but staggered into a neighbouring office where staff smothered the flames and administered first aid . |
| 21 | Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition . |
| 22 | With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion . |
| 23 | The amnesty did not include those accused of offences relating to drugs , murder , economic sabotage or armed robbery . |
| 24 | The banners gathering there on the banks of the Carron on the other side of the Forth did not include those of Orm or Gamel , the kindred of Siward 's wife , or of Osulf her cousin , whose father Siward had killed , or Copsi or Carl Thorbrandsson or Archil , all powers in York . |
| 25 | But I am conscious of a sense of contradiction that clearly did not afflict those illustrious figures . |
| 26 | He had to have directions given to him which shows he did not know those parts . |