Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 2 | They hardly saw each other & did not leave space for each other ! |
| 3 | This is certainly true of the two middle-class women who said they liked or did n't mind housework but were dissatisfied with it . |
| 4 | Papers that did not include a control group , were not randomised , did not allow calculation of ‘ intention to treat ’ results , or did not collect information on mortality or the incidence of respiratory or gastrointestinal infection were excluded . |
| 5 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 6 | He denied all the charges against him except possession of the literature which he said was either on sale in public bookstores or did not advocate violence . |
| 7 | Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status . |
| 8 | In the WFS , however , those women were considered " fecund " who were either pregnant or did not report fecundity impairment . |
| 9 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
| 10 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 11 | Megaliths were smashed to make gate-posts or road-stone , blown up or pushed aside to clear space for the plough . |
| 12 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it is fair to say ’ , mused Abrams , that everyone involved in the RIG ( the Restricted Inter-agency Group that met regularly to discuss policy in Latin America ) knew that Ollie was somehow connected with this but did n't know why … |
| 14 | The diversity of organizations and associations that joined together to form Gold EIA shows how widespread concern had become ( see table 3.2 ) . |
| 15 | The 15 companies that banded together include Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , Tivoli Systems Inc , Hyperdesk Corp , Novell Inc , Digital Equipment Corp and all of the object database concerns . |
| 16 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 17 | The teams that went in had street cred . |
| 18 | Where his friend Charles Williams had achieved only phantasmal fictions that struggled implausibly to marry realism and the supernatural , Lewis turned that improbable formula into stories that compel attention . |
| 19 | He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches . |
| 20 | So long as there is coal in the United Kingdom that can be extracted efficiently from the ground , I see no day when we could envisage an energy policy that did not embrace coal . |
| 21 | The first commercially available products from this group of drugs for anti-bacterial chemotherapy were the fluoroquinolones , which bore very little resemblance to the nalidixic acid derivatives that did not contain fluorine . |
| 22 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 23 | The Spurs Club was aimed at a deaf membership that did not use sign language . |
| 24 | The report also criticises company secretary Bruce Gray , for preparing minutes of board meetings that did not take place without checking the fact of the meetings and the decisions reached . |
| 25 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 26 | In addition a 25 second burst of delta activity was seen that did not cause panic or disturbed behaviour . |
| 27 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |
| 28 | She was fairly sure that did n't make sense , but was n't prepared to argue . |
| 29 | She gazed up into his face with bemused wonder and saw an expression there that did n't make sense . |
| 30 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |