Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world . |
2 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
3 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
4 | This duty also prevents an employee from taking advantage of any approach which is initiated by a customer or supplier even though the employee did not seek or even encourage it , as happened in Sanders ' case . |
5 | But the expected tourist bonanza did not happen and now the finance company wants its money and the family have until Thursday to find backers . |
6 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
7 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
8 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
9 | The Residents ' Association do not consider that the calculated economic benefit of a western relief road outweighs the net environmental harm . |
10 | Since dictionaries are in fact prescriptive , whatever they may claim , there is no point in their including non-prestige usages and words like fuck which everyone knows the meaning of ( though the Oxford English Dictionary did finally capitulate and put fuck in , as a gesture toward inclusive scholarship ) . |
11 | Only this time the car did n't stop or turn but drove on , slithering a little on the loose gravel , until it stopped by their front door . |
12 | The car did n't stop as it passed them . |
13 | The two sides of the equation did not balance and she could hardly bear the implications of that . |
14 | The habituated OR to the light did not return when this stimulus was presented in the other context ( context B in the figure ) , that is , habituation transferred across contexts . |
15 | This collapse did not materialize and , more to the point , by 1948 an increasing percentage of the French people no longer believed in the imminence of such a collapse . |
16 | Openness did not demand that he tell her he had suggested it . |
17 | That fear did not abate when , briefly , he halted . |
18 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
19 | Sometimes parents had stopped the laxative because the stool withholding manoeuvres or screaming did not stop as soon as loose stools were induced . |
20 | The Superintendent did n't look as though this came as a surprise to him . |
21 | The final day of the hearing has included evidence from a Metropolitan Police forensic expert , who admitted ammunition found at the scene of the crime did n't match that found at Marsh 's parents ' home . |
22 | If you have been a victim of a crime do not assume that it can not happen again . |
23 | Monitoring over the past 50 years has shown that during the 1960s deep convection did not occur and the temperature and salinity of LSW gradually increased . |
24 | In cases of " innocent publication " , where the defendant has not intended to criticise the plaintiff ( either because the defendant did not realise that the words would be understood to refer to the plaintiff or the defendant is unaware of special circumstances which make them defamatory ) liability may be avoided by making an " offer of amends " under s4 of the 1952 Defamation Act . |
25 | The second defendant did not appear and was not represented . |
26 | The defendant did not appeal and failed to comply with the notices . |
27 | It is irrelevant that the defendant did not know that the brochure had been read ( i.e. that the false statement had been made ) . |
28 | In the case of innocent infringement ( if the defendant did not know and had no reason to believe that the semiconductor design right subsisted in the article ) damages are not available although other remedies may be , such as an account of profits . |
29 | Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description . |
30 | It is then for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant did so intend or was aware . |