Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did n't stop the rock press from gnashing its teeth and a prize was certainly in the offing for the writer who could effectively belittle the Morrissey figure . |
| 2 | This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism . |
| 3 | This did n't give the guy a lot of confidence about his bet , but I do n't think the thought of losing had entered Peter 's head . |
| 4 | The Buenos Aires flight was delayed and the plane horribly hot , but this did n't upset the passengers who seemed delighted to be going home . |
| 5 | This did n't get a good response . |
| 6 | This did n't seem the time to remind him that he had seen her wearing considerably less . |
| 7 | H pylori was identified in the gastric biopsy specimens of six of 17 ( 35% ) rheumatoid patients receiving long term gold injections plus NSAID , which is only two subjects less than the expected prevalence in such a subgroup had they taken NSAID only ; this did not change the overall statistical analyses of the study . |
| 8 | The court held that this did not show an absence of negligence since someone must have been careless in not following the proper system . |
| 9 | However , the Attorney-General courteously but firmly warned your Lordships that this did not conclude the question . |
| 10 | It was held that this did not entitle the buyers to reject the whole consignment . |
| 11 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 12 | There could be little agreement any longer on the nature of reality or truth , but this did not prevent a wide if vague consensus about the undesirability of dogmatism , superstition , parochialism , unexamined assumptions and unthinking lives . |
| 13 | Yet this did not prevent a considerable proportion of headships of French missions going to outsiders — senators , prefects , colonial governors , soldiers ( again notably in the case of appointments to St Petersburg ) and even journalists . |
| 14 | This did not prevent the Family Planning Association in its Dublin and Cork clinics from providing contraceptives freely and students at University College , Dublin from installing a condom-dispensing machine in their Union building . |
| 15 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 16 | On Poland , an arrangement was made whereby the Communists would form a joint administration with elements of the London government-in-exile , but this did not prevent the country 's long-term domination by Moscow . |
| 17 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 18 | This workshop had only five participants , but this did not stop a lively exchange of views which did n't necessarily stick to the questions asked by the organisers of the conference . |
| 19 | The 1970 Conservative manifesto , A Better Tomorrow stated : " we will stop further nationalisation " but this did not stop a Conservative Government nationalising Rolls Royce just 8 months into office . |
| 20 | Fortunately this did not stop the women from trying , and Basnett , senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick , describes in some detail the individual practitioners who set about the task . |
| 21 | The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions . |
| 22 | Even so , this did not stop the trouble . |
| 23 | The following day was a total white-out , although this did not stop the intrepid skiers , as we headed to the top of Roc des 3 Marches and down into Meribel Mottaret . |
| 24 | That the King was an industrious sovereign was never disputed , but his efforts were confined to what he considered to be ‘ royal business ’ — and this did not embrace an interest in the lives and welfare of his people at large . |
| 25 | This did not mean a lack of thought about the philosophical agenda behind . |
| 26 | This did not mean a slavish copying of mediaeval motifs , but rather that the style would provide a basis from which a future architecture would develop , using modern materials and techniques . |
| 27 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 28 | However , Mr Gorbachev made clear this did not mean the entire relationship between the two Germanys had to be frozen for ever . |
| 29 | Customs spokesman John Barber said this did not mean the drugs teams were prevented from carrying out their vital work . |
| 30 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |