Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 2 | George Neilson in Scotland [ q.v. ] , and Goddard Orpen in Ireland , she was to prove in a stream of articles and books that motte and bailey castles did not appear in these isles until after the Norman invasion . |
| 3 | The word " abortion " did not appear in any of the three proposals . |
| 4 | New buildings did not appear in any numbers until the 1950s . |
| 5 | Paul Biya did not appear in public for over six months , and his position has never fully recovered in spite of winning a new term in the March 1988 presidential election . |
| 6 | Jan Age Fjortoft — attacker with trouble at Swindon — did not score in 13 matches — Swindon bought Scott from some lower div. club — Scott has put in some goals — and Fjortoft is left out both from Swindon and the national team . |
| 7 | Binding was observed between antibody KG9 and rice and millet prolamins ; maize prolains displayed very weak bands and sorghum did not react in this system . |
| 8 | O.G.S. Crawford refused a paid advertisement for the book in the journal Antiquity , his objection centring around the view that prehistoric people did not walk in straight lines , as all the undoubted prehistoric roads were winding . |
| 9 | But Anselm did not think in these terms . |
| 10 | Medieval kings did not think in those terms . |
| 11 | Medieval kings did not think in those terms . |
| 12 | At this point Bukharin did not suggest in any detail how the new equilibrium was to be achieved ; but he was willing to move more cautiously and pragmatically . |
| 13 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 14 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 15 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 16 | ‘ We have reason to believe that this man Chant did not originate in this Dominion . ’ |
| 17 | He did not sit in any subsequent Parliament . |
| 18 | Mr McArdle wrote : ‘ It is sad to report that in this case the behaviour of the Daily Mirror and its staff did not contribute in any way to the detection of crime . |
| 19 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 20 | Tyler Blacklock had little interest in the millinery world , for he hardly ever wore a hat and so did not move in such circles ; neither had he made enquiries with regard to Beth or her husband . |
| 21 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 22 | Obviously 2010 was operating under constraints — of increased scientific knowledge of the planets and of space travel — that did not exist in 1964–68 . |
| 23 | An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times . |
| 24 | For example , the management information function referred to frequently in the chart did not exist in most Colleges before the study was carried out , but appeared to be essential for effective operation in the future . |
| 25 | These extremes of wealth and poverty apparently inseparable from corn-and-sheep husbandry did not exist in most pastoral regions , where , as a rule , little more than a tenth of all wealth belonged to men worth £50 or more . |
| 26 | And what we today call ‘ soteriology ’ ( the doctrine of salvation ) did not exist in any systematic way at all ( Kelly 1977 : 375 ) . |
| 27 | There was , however , a complicating factor here which did not exist in any other European state . |
| 28 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 29 | Co-curators David W. Penney , Associate Curator , Department of African , Oceanic and New World Cultures , at the Detroit Institute , and George P. Horse Capture , a member of the Cros Ventre tribe and formerly Curator of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center , tell us that ‘ art as a category did not exist in American Indian languages ’ , but their concern ‘ is not so much the issue of defining American Indian creations to fit a European definition of ‘ art ’ , but of redefining ‘ art ’ and consequently art history to include the artistic practices of American Indians , Africans , folk artists , and even the modern film industry , advertising and popular illustrations ’ . |
| 30 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |