Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , it was Rousseau 's conviction that no one could be truly free who did not govern him/herself , and that therefore only some kind of direct democracy provided the framework within which government and freedom could be reconciled . |
| 2 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
| 3 | Yet there are few who did n't recoil from the chill of The Silence of the Lambs or feel a sense of bleakness as JFK unfurled its theories . |
| 4 | And more to die before the firing squad , and few who did not wear the gold rings of the officers to escape the penalty of imprisonment . |
| 5 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 6 | There are probably still some children who are never allowed to see the genitals of the opposite sex as small children , but Freud found , even among upper-class children , that there were few who did not manage a way to see the genitals of the opposite sex before they were five or six years old . |
| 7 | But , as a two-time General Election loser — and a perceived drag on his own party 's prospects — there were few who did not concede that his career at the top of British politics was at an end . |
| 8 | There were wan smiles on the faces of some who did not think it was possible . |
| 9 | Now , there were some who did n't drink , not many , and some who would n't drink , and Joicey always benefited from them all . |
| 10 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 11 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 12 | Of the remaining 7 who did not have repeat coronary arteriography there was acute resolution of the ST segment elevation in 4 . |
| 13 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
| 14 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 15 | ‘ There were two or three who did n't have any remorse ; these people I did n't feel comfortable with . |
| 16 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 17 | I feel sad for all who did n't attend and for those who do n't even have the chance to attend something similar . |
| 18 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 19 | Many who did not object to this in principle disliked the high-handed way it was adopted . |
| 20 | Before that contract for the helicopter support ship was awarded , I think we all knew well that whoever did n't get it was in trouble , and that of course is why we never took sides . |
| 21 | Thank you everybody who spoke , I 'm sorry to those who did n't manage to fit in . |
| 22 | These threats were not idle , although they were usually only directed at those who did n't do much business . |
| 23 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 24 | For those who did n't go , they started off with a rather perfunctory ‘ Summer Babe ’ , trawled through most of the album and then went through two shambolic encores . |
| 25 | There were those who wanted to escape and thought that everyone else ought to want to , and there were those who did n't want to escape and who did n't want anyone else to want to either . |
| 26 | The story of those who did n't want this is often not a pleasant one and there the rigidity and the oppression of our traditions are exposed . |
| 27 | Tonight , touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who did n't make it to the box office . |
| 28 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 29 | He played right into my hands and I then said , ‘ There is no such thing as political theory in Ireland , just different gangs that compete with each other and reward their followers if they win and punish those who did n't vote for them , if they lose . ’ |
| 30 | However , small libraries , ( or those who did n't send staff on many external courses ) , often looked first to the opportunity to be able to attend external courses rather than develop internal programmes . |