Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normality ratings did not clearly support this position . |
| 2 | They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them . |
| 3 | For herself she was unconcerned , she had never liked the cat , did not particularly like any cats , and found this one obnoxiously self-centred and cold . |
| 4 | This did not automatically lead all in influential circles to conclude that there was a need for provision for the poor by the state . |
| 5 | If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis . |
| 6 | Secondly , they were treating babies as not yet formed adults since their nervous system did not yet contain all the adult structures which they imagined , without any evidence , would be necessary before one could have an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 7 | Economists said trade figures did not yet reflect much of the yen 's recent rise against the dollar but the effect of the yen 's rise could figure in the March and April trade figures . |
| 8 | This alternative submission did not however occupy much time in argument before your Lordships . |
| 9 | This did not however imply that recovery would follow in every case where a mistake had been shown to exist : ‘ If the defendant can show that the payment was made in settlement of an honest claim , or that he has changed his position as a result of the enrichment , then restitution will be denied . ’ |
| 10 | At some later date he abandoned all his offices and journeyed to the Hijaz ( which journey both Mecdi and el-Kefevi have taken to be for the purpose of going on the pilgrimage ) ; alter his return he did not again hold any office . |
| 11 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 12 | Despite the widespread incorporation of the systems approach into branches of physical geography and its increasing use as a framework for textbook structures , some disillusionment has occurred , possibly because the systems approach did not immediately offer all that was at first hoped . |
| 13 | Heisenberg did not immediately appreciate this last point and in the first draft of his paper it was not considered . |
| 14 | A good example that pre-ponderance of state monopoly did not completely suppress any form of competition is a provision of the Hungarian Civil Code ( S. 4(2) ) prohibiting ‘ unfair economic activities , in particular abuse of superior economic power , the misleading of consumers or imposing unfair prices ’ . |
| 15 | " There was something I forgot to mention to you earlier , " said the Padre , who did not normally favour such a blunt approach but felt that given the state of his health there might not be any time to lose … |
| 16 | He made few friends ; he joined few clubs or societies , and after being elected to the college debating society was asked to resign because he never spoke ; he did not even spend much money . |
| 17 | It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed . |
| 18 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 19 | Some farmers , however , did not even attempt this , but preferred to rely upon the application of economic and social discipline alone . |
| 20 | Botham did not even have much luck with the weather during his captaincy . |
| 21 | She did not even have any squeamishness left over . |
| 22 | London at this time did not even have any sports teams outside of schools . |
| 23 | Without wishing to detract from the impact of the number of dogs put to sleep weekly by the RSPCA , it must be realised that this number would be much higher if vets themselves did not also spend much of their time carrying out euthanasia . |
| 24 | Confusingly , many independents were in fact Moldavian CP members and also enjoyed that party 's backing ( the Moldavian CP did not officially nominate any candidates ) . |
| 25 | He did not exactly believe this statement : to his mind Steve was not developing , he was already fully what he had it in him to be . |
| 26 | While he did not exactly oppose this suggestion , he added , somewhat enigmatically , that he believed Liza 's trouble was due to circumstances quite beyond her control and that she needed the help not so much of a specialist but a sympathetic friend personally acquainted with her predicament . |
| 27 | In some senses , indeed , the great Act of 1944 did not fundamentally modify some of the basic assumptions about the nature of a ‘ good ’ secondary education . |
| 28 | The final year of the Occupation did not fundamentally alter this status . |
| 29 | Marx did not thereby characterise this as being primitive accumulation on the part of British capital , but rather as period of development of capital on the basis of the capitalist mode of production , even though this entailed the destruction of pre-capitalist forms . |
| 30 | They found that the two measures did not separately hold any predictive value , but in combination they discriminated well between families in which a child developed some schizophrenic symptoms and those whose child remained free of such symptoms . |