Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The have-nots promised not to acquire nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | Cameron pretended not to see young Donald till he was close beside him , then turned in mock surprise and said to him , ‘ Well well , Donald — we had given you up . |
| 3 | Usually , she met people halfway , and tried not to make snap judgements about them . |
| 4 | Westminster is a factual and somewhat pedestrian programme and , in the past , it tried not to offer political judgements . |
| 5 | They 'd not favoured local women for security reasons . |
| 6 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 7 | I decided not to go straight back to the house . |
| 8 | With conditions virtually guaranteed to remain fast , trainer Arthur Moore decided not to risk Soft Day in the Arkle Chase . |
| 9 | An emergency meeting of OAS foreign ministers on April 13 " deeply deplored " Fujimori 's action but , in marked contrast to the OAS position following the September 1991 coup in Haiti [ see p. 38522 ] , decided not to impose economic sanctions . |
| 10 | In September the DPP decided not to bring corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail after four people died in October 1987 when a river bridge at Glanrhyd , Dyfed , Wales , over which a train was travelling despite a red flood alert , collapsed . |
| 11 | Whilst Jackson struggled not to offend black outreach workers , the system for processing the application forms buckled under the weight of numbers and its inbuilt defects . |
| 12 | He chose not to take legal proceedings against his ex-partner and the company was put into liquidation ( second attempt at sabotage ) . |
| 13 | At its 18th congress on Nov. 3-4 the CPCz chose not to follow other east European former ruling parties in adopting a change of name . |
| 14 | This is not unlike the former position for companies and this too produced many circumstances where organizations chose not to follow professional prescription and there did not appear to be the power or the will to enforce compliance . |
| 15 | In a reaction with profound long-term implications President Truman promptly despatched American forces to support South Korea and , on the advice of Dean Acheson , his Secretary of State , deliberately chose not to seek congressional authorization for this act of war . |
| 16 | A Lloyds spokesman explained that , while each case would be ‘ treated on its merit ’ , the bank preferred not to cash single dollar bills . |
| 17 | Following the OPEC price rise , the oil companies preferred not to work pre-1973 wells very intensely . |
| 18 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 19 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 20 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 21 | Even such an excellent scholar as Wyld , who was extremely interested in the social motivations of change , did not give sufficient weight to the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 22 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 23 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 24 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 25 | If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . |
| 26 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 27 | Indeed Bevin did not want joint bases in peacetime : these might simply provoke the USSR . |
| 28 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 29 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 30 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |