Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] not [adv] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | All three datasets had been relatively little analysed and the study aimed not only to identify general patterns of poor parenting but also to examine processes that might be specific to each risk factor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This study did not explicitly compare these two treatments in terms of time costs and discomfort . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the industry did not yet look on training as an accepted way of improving production , income , living standards , etc . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | This alternative submission did not however occupy much time in argument before your Lordships . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Direct action did not always take place under the aegis of CND . |
| 21 | And yet , Theodora reflected , the hatchment did not quite fit her memory of what she had seen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This rule did not always apply but was judge made . |
| 24 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 25 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 26 | At a meeting of the commissars of the Roslavl' garrison the military commander of the town hospital admitted that the political cell in his institution did not really exist , although there were occasional discussions of newspaper articles . |
| 27 | Anti-road campaigners called for the government to guarantee long-term protection for Oxleas Wood and pointed out that the change of mind did not necessarily signal a change of policy , with the government 's £23,000 million roads programme continuing to threaten 160 sites of special scientific interest , many of them more valuable than Oxleas Wood . |
| 28 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |
| 29 | " The roof did not actually leak very much before it was taken in hand to be repaired : but is now reported to be in need of more repairs . " |
| 30 | First of all , Climber & Hill Walker readers must be wondering what he was so annoyed about , because the review did not actually appear in this magazine but its sister publication The Great Outdoors . |