Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bathsheba tried not to show any expression on her face . |
| 2 | The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ; |
| 3 | My mum and my stepdad decided not to have any children . |
| 4 | This is not unlike the former position for companies and this too produced many circumstances where organizations chose not to follow professional prescription and there did not appear to be the power or the will to enforce compliance . |
| 5 | At its 18th congress on Nov. 3-4 the CPCz chose not to follow other east European former ruling parties in adopting a change of name . |
| 6 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 7 | Words did n't seem able to describe the confusion of her feelings for fitzAlan . |
| 8 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 9 | I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren . |
| 10 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Frankly , it 's amazing that Labour did n't make more of the current economic difficulties , ’ he said , expressing vigorous dissatisfaction at the intellectual content of the election campaign . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The local opposition did not require much effort to undermine state legitimacy on the effects of uranium mining : indeed the state itself contributed strongly to its own delegitimization . |
| 14 | Scarcity limited its purchase to the wealthy and quinine did not become available generally for the treatment of malaria for another two hundred years , when the Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies . |
| 15 | Big Flame did n't have permanent leaders , but it did have superstars . |
| 16 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 17 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 18 | The Sheikha again said that it was a story from the days past but Halema did not say another word . |
| 19 | But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school . |
| 20 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |
| 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 | The Libyans did n't do that . ’ |
| 23 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 24 | Bernice did n't like this woman . |
| 25 | One journalist asked him about " The Love Life of J. Alfred Prufrock " and he replied gravely , " I 'm afraid that J. Alfred Prufrock did n't have much of a love life " . |
| 26 | Alejandro did n't like dead mares around ; it looked bad if potential buyers dropped in . |
| 27 | 47% of families asking for help from the Family Welfare Association did not have enough money left to feed themselves . |
| 28 | Histological investigation of the intestine did not show any morphological features that could explain the physiological observations . |
| 29 | In the other 14 patients , barium studies of the small and large intestine did not show any mechanical obstruction . |
| 30 | The loss of the Scotch wizard had , as Chapman put it , ‘ an unfortunate influence on the team ’ ; Arsenal did not win another match before the final and Everton increased their lead to seven points . |