Example sentences of "[det] do not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected . |
| 2 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 3 | But this did not prevent assembly acceptance of the plan . |
| 4 | But this did not prevent Mrs Thatcher from exposing another potential problem in her Financial Times interview : accommodating a trading and reserve currency such as sterling within a mechanism where the Deutschemark has no serious challenger . |
| 5 | This did not prevent Minton 's relationship with Susan Einzig becoming , for her , one of the most important in her life and his positive influence on her as an artist endures to this day . |
| 6 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 7 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 8 | Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s . |
| 9 | All this did not stop Alfred from being a Christian king ; indeed some of his recorded behaviour seems almost Quixotically forgiving . |
| 10 | This did not stop West Indies taking a firm grip on the match , as Greenidge reached 5,000 Test runs and Richards 6,000 , warming up for his achievement in the next match with 87. 312 all out was hardly the big total they would have wanted , but it was quite enough . |
| 11 | But this did not stop Yeltsin from making Grachev a hero and even proposing ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister . |
| 12 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 13 | Notwithstanding his own desire to deflate or remove Nasser , and his belief that Britain and France might with reason fear Nasser as a major long-term threat , this did not justify precipitate and premature action . |
| 14 | But this did not deter Mum who leaned out of the window . |
| 15 | The other LASMO drivers — Dave Fowler and Matt Whitelaw — also managed to keep up a blistering pace , but this did not deter Dave Brittan who finished well ahead of the field . |
| 16 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 17 | We found a small tendency for an earlier deterioration in cognitive function , with loss of speed and accuracy of the four choice reaction during the controlled hypoglycaemia induced by porcine insulin but this did not achieve significance . |
| 18 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 19 | In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates , though this did not reach significance . |
| 20 | Although PGE 2 synthesis was lower in patients taking NSAIDs who smoked compared with non-smokers this did not reach significance ( 8.5 ( 2.4–24.9 ) v 18.1 ( 9.8–46.5 ) pg/mg ( p=0.076 ) ) . |
| 21 | We also found lower concentrations in smokers although this did not reach significance . |
| 22 | This did not make sense . |
| 23 | Even this did not make Donald crane his neck forward and start retching all over the table . |
| 24 | Chinese influence on all aspects of Japanese society and politics was immense , and while this did not preclude friction between the two countries , nor the development of indigenous Japanese cultural traits , many of the institutions , ideas and attitudes important to Japanese history owe a great deal to China . |
| 25 | Brazil , a significant trading partner of Iraq , joined the embargo but emphasised that this did not cover food for humanitarian uses . |
| 26 | This reinforced the government 's decision of October 1988 to trim five million pounds from the UK fusion budget ; this did not affect JET but threatened 150 jobs at the adjacent Culham Laboratory . |
| 27 | Naturally , this did not please Laura who thought the designer status was a disadvantage ‘ because people are n't so likely to think of us as a neighbourhood store ; that 's what we want to be . |
| 28 | This did not please Taylor . |
| 29 | Maggie knew that many of her school-friends admired Phoebe ; they thought she was rather splendid , especially since they had all got into ecology , but this did not help Maggie . |
| 30 | Because this alibi showed Mathews to have lied in identifying Murphy , Roy Jenkins , the Home Secretary , asked the Appeal Court to consider whether this did not raise suspicions about Mathews 's identification of McMahon and Cooper . |