Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Labour did not formally oppose the measure in Parliament , despite backbench misgivings , but did criticise the use of £750,000 of public money to advertise overseas voters ' rights . |
2 | In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote . |
3 | But today 's demonstration did n't quite go to plan . |
4 | Bonanza did n't even bother to look at Jackson . |
5 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
6 | A manor did not necessarily cover the same area as a parish ; indeed , parishes sometimes contained two or more manors and the boundaries between the two institutions often overlapped . |
7 | The man wrote to the Home Office to enquire why laws against discrimination on the grounds of sex , race and religion did not also apply to age . |
8 | In the light of Government inaction , one might reasonably ask again why the Library Association did not then initiate legal action against the News International ban . |
9 | Any purely dog-orientated career opportunities within the association do n't really exist . |
10 | The pattern of deprivation in the North Side did not then present a universal picture of disinvestment or devalorisation prior to the declaration of the programme . |
11 | There was a robust denial of those allegations from Borders Regional Council 's assistant education director , Kenneth Paterson , who said the temporary closure did not necessarily mean a permanent shutdown . |
12 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
13 | This study did not explicitly compare these two treatments in terms of time costs and discomfort . |
14 | Nevertheless , The Prelude did not really command a wide readership until the end of the nineteenth century , when the image of the poet as an old man ( 'Daddy Wordsworth' ) was finally replaced for younger readers with the more appealing picture of the revolutionary poet of the 1790s . |
15 | Unfortunately the industry did not yet look on training as an accepted way of improving production , income , living standards , etc . |
16 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ Job cuts in the textile industry do not normally attract a lot of attention because it largely employs women , but textiles is a very important part of the North-East 's economy and a very important source of employment . ’ |
17 | The gutter press and the entertainment industry do not yet exist here in the way they do in Britain or in the United States . |
18 | Patients whose serum creatinine concentration did not subsequently fall below 500 µmol/l were defined as having chronic renal failure ; those in whom acute renal failure was part of any underlying terminal disease ( usually malignant ) were also excluded . |
19 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
20 | Iris might be right in implying that Rick was the innocent victim of circumstantial evidence coupled with his own cowardly refusal to go to the police … but Rick 's innocence did not automatically confirm Barney 's guilt . |
21 | This practice did not strictly contravene the legislation since there is a loophole which allowed the introduction of this line of questioning at the discretion of the judge , if the judge thought it was essential . |
22 | While in talks with his own advisers the president did not necessarily rule out armed action at some later date , he vetoed a CIA plan to " topple Nasser " . |
23 | This alternative submission did not however occupy much time in argument before your Lordships . |
24 | Euripides , the intellectual Euripides , was the " poet of Socratic rationalism " and tragedy did not simply die after him : it was " Socratism " in its Euripidean embodiment that killed it , although this destructive tendency preceded Socrates himself and affected even Sophocles . |
25 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
26 | Andrew Eliel , editor of the guide , said the award had been launched because it was felt the best chef did not necessarily work in the best restaurant . |
27 | Direct action did not always take place under the aegis of CND . |
28 | And yet , Theodora reflected , the hatchment did not quite fit her memory of what she had seen . |
29 | If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 . |
30 | This rule did not always apply but was judge made . |