Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided not to go straight back to the house . |
| 2 | With conditions virtually guaranteed to remain fast , trainer Arthur Moore decided not to risk Soft Day in the Arkle Chase . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A Lloyds spokesman explained that , while each case would be ‘ treated on its merit ’ , the bank preferred not to cash single dollar bills . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 13 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . , |
| 17 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 18 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 19 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 20 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 21 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 22 | At the beginning of March , 75% of our supporters did not want Civic Forum to become a political party . |
| 23 | Yet party leaders did not want direct control , in case TANU was banned : they wanted the paper to be able to continue even in the event of this happening . |
| 24 | Local authorities , however , faced with the need to make the most effective use of school buildings and staff , did not make parental choice the paramount consideration . |
| 25 | It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable . |
| 26 | But although her explanation made logical sense — it did not make emotional sense . |
| 27 | An enormous amount of meaning would disappear if speakers and hearers did not make heavy use of affective cues — like tone of voice , hesitating and hedging . |
| 28 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 29 | This did not make happy reading in Noel Murphy 's end of tour managerial report . |
| 30 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |