Example sentences of "[noun pl] did not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 2 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 3 | But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school . |
| 4 | The direct-grant schools did not like these proposals , and had little to gain from them . |
| 5 | Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition . |
| 6 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 7 | As delivered , these cars did not carry any destination equipment , but new cars delivered in 1906 and subsequently , had wooden destination boxes on tall stanchions above the ends of the upper deck . |
| 8 | It will not be enough to define a term as a " condition " or " warranty " , for a court may decide that the parties did not intend any breach of a term labelled a " condition " to give rise to a right to withdraw , and thus disregard the label given to the term by the parties ( Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 9 | ( i ) The parties did not agree that delivery could be by instalments . |
| 10 | In addition one of the subjects did not show any fluctuations in risk ratings , in debriefing he explained that he certainly could imagine many risky situations , but he had not encountered any during the drive . |
| 11 | The supporters did not release some of the best young talent in Ulster ( Strain , Millar , Keery , McCaffrey , etc ! ) |
| 12 | Much to the disappointment of the Board , surveys conducted in 1940 produced negative results : typical of them was the meticulous investigation , in late 1940 , of a group of 1,119 London County Council children evacuated to rural areas ; comparing them with an equivalent group of London children in 1938 , the study concluded that ‘ a period of evacuation of several months did not cause any significant difference in the rate of growth of evacuated children ’ . |
| 13 | 1.6 6 Universities , 6 Colleges and 2 Polytechnics did not report any Inset courses generally concerned with Language in Education . |
| 14 | Fortunately his rude manners did not cut much ice with his colleagues either . |
| 15 | The new , native-born administrators did not displace these Iranian settlers but imitated and co-operated with them . |
| 16 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 17 | Although we had excellent training schemes for our general customs work at this period cutter crews did not receive any specialised instruction for crewing duties . |
| 18 | Provisions of May the fourth had been seriously overstepped but the communists did not realize this and thought that more land was available for redistribution . |
| 19 | The hugging , questing , gelatinous limbs did not block all possible entrance into the multiple hulk . |
| 20 | In some countries University Institutes did not assume such initial importance in curriculum development . |
| 21 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 22 | Sri Lankans did not view some of the reasons behind the overturning of convictions as just . |
| 23 | By contrast , the Arab population and surrounding countries did not accept this United Nations decision and five Arab armies attacked the new State of Israel as soon as it was declared in May 1948 . |
| 24 | Though a therapeutic response was reported , histological examination of the endometrial curettings did not show any disease . |
| 25 | The coalowners ' response in most areas was to give notice that their workers ' contracts were terminated from the end of the month : Nottinghamshire colliery companies did not follow this path , but the NMA felt bound to call a strike in solidarity with the MFGB . |
| 26 | He said the council is pledged to quality service throughout the town and cars parked in gardens did not match that pledge . |
| 27 | Tsongas did not endorse either of the remaining candidates , and stated that he would retain his 430 hard-won delegates until the party convention in July . |
| 28 | The Conservatives did not increase these allowances , but it is doubtful whether many voters were influenced to change their allegiances on this issue . |
| 29 | Cleveland trading standards officer Eric Robinson who collated a file of complaints against SureStyle , said they wanted the Office of Fair Trading to take action against the directors of SureStyle to ensure they as individuals did not pursue these sales tactics in the future . |
| 30 | Reducing the size and increasing the distance apart of the targets did not remove these lateralised effects even though greater accuracy was required in hitting the targets . |