Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At twenty-one Renate did not have the most exciting job in the world , but with her German friends on a radio assembly line she seemed happy and settled . |
| 2 | A corrective to eccentric views , or a stimulus to close argument in presenting them , is provided by discussion or by teaching , formal or ( particularly ) informal ; and this Swainson did not have . |
| 3 | At the same time , it was stressed by Graeme Knox that Scottish Amicable did not have an interest in taking a majority stake as some reports had suggested . |
| 4 | The tests show people with symptomless HIV did not benefit in terms of survival or spread of the disease , whether they took the drug immediately on diagnosis or waited for the onset of infection . |
| 5 | In some sense , dormant , through all of this Anton did not move . |
| 6 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 7 | ‘ But the real Hess did not come . |
| 8 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 9 | A ‘ Simultaneous Mission ’ throughout England and Wales was planned for the first month of the new century ; the Queen 's death on 21 January did not alter plans and some said the mission was helped by the heightened emotions produced by her death . |
| 10 | But so had Danny Maher , who now had the ride on Bachelor 's Button , and who was of the opinion that Pretty Polly did not have sufficient reserves to last home in the Gold Cup . |
| 11 | ‘ Rain , I am perfectly sure Ben did not kill Sabine . |
| 12 | ‘ But I am sure Isabel did not like the idea ? ’ |
| 13 | Pre-colonial Africa did not lack entrepreneurs who managed trading companies , in some cases stretching well beyond contemporary national frontiers , and which had the capacity to invest profits from trade in production . |
| 14 | ‘ I am sure Marx did not recognize the existence of ghosts , ’ said Bernard , ‘ but please do n't go looking for the reference ; not now ! ’ |
| 15 | Relations of production were in some cases clearly oppressive , but that was more attributable to the nationalism of the government and the ethnic prejudice of the employers than to their capitalism : relations of wealthy to poor Zuwaya did not constitute class relations , and secondary characteristics of class — segregation in housing , schooling and medical care — — were absent . |
| 16 | Unlike the Mitcham Order , the 1902 Bill did not pass through Parliament unscathed and when it became effective as an Act , on 31 July 1902 , many sections had been deleted , largely because of the very narrow roads named in Carshalton . |
| 17 | The group identified three specific problems : the large number of design and furniture requirements ; the fact that many Woonerven did not meet these requirements ; and that there was no legal regulation for Woonerf-like areas that were not located in residential areas but had been set up in shopping streets ( Winkelerven ) ( Figure 4.9 ) and village centres ( Dorpserven ) . |
| 18 | Thus we can see how social reform in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany did not achieve , fully , its aim of a classless , mass-disciplined society . |
| 19 | But Britain and the Austrian Habsburgs did not follow suit until 1742 , and France and Spain not until three years after that . |
| 20 | Collaboration was accomplished with certain segments of society , notably with landowners and the wealthy élite , but in total Japan did not succeed in reconciling the most articulate in Korea to the continuance of the Japanese presence . |
| 21 | The 1987 SORP did not elaborate but notable examples have occurred in the past when high-rise council flats have been demolished relatively soon after construction : local authorities have decided that housing revenue accounts could not and should not bear the burden of extinguishing the associated debt in the year of demolition . |
| 22 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 23 | However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies . |
| 24 | At first Sara did not see the two figures standing close together at the end of the room . |
| 25 | In October Bassingbourn had become the home of 231 ( Mosquito ) OCU and 237 ( Meteor ) OCU and it was on the Meteors that the initial staff work-up was done , the first Canberras did not arrive until the following February . |
| 26 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 27 | Yet the message which Ho despatched on 15 December did not reach Paris until 26 December , and then yielded no response . |
| 28 | In 1777 Mozart did not require a check in the pianos he preferred . |
| 29 | The young Gian did not take up his position in society , however , preferring to travel and to spend his money on his collection . |
| 30 | But western Europe did not follow the United States ' example by radical moves in a commercial or competitive direction . |