Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 2 | This did n't make any sense . |
| 3 | This did n't make any sense . |
| 4 | But even this did n't dispel some of the confusions that I was feeling . |
| 5 | But this did n't sound good . |
| 6 | This did n't happen last year and I was cross it did n't but I 've organized it so that it will this year . |
| 7 | But sexual jealousy of an unsatisfactory husband 's former wife — this did n't seem likely : Viola 's own love-life , Greg guessed , had been varied enough for her to ignore any previous entanglements of her second husband 's . |
| 8 | If this did n't come all the way from the top , I 'd have you walk under a squad car on the way out of the building . |
| 9 | Well it must have been a tough old crab because this did n't work either . |
| 10 | This did not exclude close if unequal personal relations any more than it did in slave societies . |
| 11 | Though analysts remain sceptical on whether interest rate cuts will lead to a rapid revival in the housing market , this did not prevent strong gains being made in the sector . |
| 12 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 13 | This did not prevent later generations of pacifists from taking the NCF as precisely such a model . |
| 14 | Although this did not attain statistical significance in individual groups , the proportion of γ-interferon expressing intra epithelial lymphocytes in untreated coeliacs was only 25% of the value found in normal mucosa and a similar reduction was found in other groups with mucosal pathology ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 15 | Although the rectitude which he sought was personal rather than public , this did not mean that public rectitude , which had required that the vacancy at Canterbury should be filled as soon as possible , was excluded from consideration . |
| 16 | The cost of housing construction , and particularly the cost of the associated public utilities , was usually higher in rural areas , although this did not deter private developers whose houses usually needed the same facilities . |
| 17 | The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy . |
| 18 | It made clear that married women were expected to be housewives first and foremost ; and that since this did not involve any independent income , wives were to be covered by , and dependent on , their husbands ' insurance : |
| 19 | This did not reflect higher state spending . |
| 20 | The selectors in 1991 chose 32% women artists for the final show , whereas this year 's show has 52% women artists ; although this did not reflect any conscious intention on the selectors part to discriminate in favour of women . |
| 21 | There were some problems with the age of actors to suit characters but this did not impede some splendid performances . |
| 22 | He knew , from reading the newspapers , that there was a wide stratum of society for whom this did not hold true . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that Crohn 's disease gives rise to a relatively enhanced production of IgG2 compared with IgG1 , but this did not hold true when we compared immunohistochemical data from our present and previous study with controls . |
| 24 | As anticipated , patients with untreated coeliac disease had an increased density of CD45+ intra epithelial lymphocytes compared with disease controls ( although this did not reach statistical significance ) , as did patients on a gluten free diet with abnormal histology ( Table ) . |
| 25 | In fact , there was a trend towards a greater likelihood of requiring hepatic transplantation , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 26 | Although there was a trend of higher synthesis of LTB 4 in those NSAID subjects with endoscopic evidence of more severe mucosal injury this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 27 | The mean wave frequency was 2.36 c/min ( range 0.1–12.4 ) with the higher values occurring during the prandial periods ( Table I ) , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 28 | In support of this we also found that PGE 2 synthesis was increased in patients with dyspepsia compared with patients without symptoms although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 29 | This did not make such theories false , but it did prevent them being seriously developed as scientific theories . |
| 30 | This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it . |