Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 2 | What was worse , within minutes people would be walking all over her back-breaking work — it did not bear thinking of . |
| 3 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 4 | The company did not give details of drives used or capacities , or any indication of prices . |
| 5 | On this latter point , however , they did not give details of how this was achieved in schools . |
| 6 | Victims were named but the report did not give details of those responsible , its remit being to document repression rather than to carry out a judicial investigation . |
| 7 | Christopher did not give details of the US aid programme , but he offered some general ideas . |
| 8 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 9 | Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status . |
| 10 | Secondly , Meshkinpour did not regard confirmation of a diagnosis as influencing patient management whereas we felt that it was of value in certain situation such as in patients with suspected achalasia before myotomy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The monopoly was normal practice , and the boundary chosen was intended simply to make sure that the Company did not go east of the Bay into areas claimed by New France ; nobody had any idea that the river system of the Bay gave the Company an area — known as Rupert 's Land after Prince Rupert , the Governor of the Company — that covered millions of square miles to the west . |
| 13 | The success of Let Us Compare Mythologies confirmed Leonard in his decision to be a poet-writer , even if it did not relieve Masha of her concern for his future well being . |
| 14 | The helper obviously did not do part of the actions denoted by the infinitives in these sentences . |
| 15 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Ms Craig ! ’ she exclaimed , rushing forward with outstretched hands as if afraid Melissa would vanish if she did not lay hold of her . |
| 17 | Despite initial SPD threats to block ratification , SPD leaders said on March 9 that their desire for improvements did not preclude approval of the treaty . |
| 18 | Removal of platelets did not alter relaxation of precontracted muscle by 1×10/l mononuclear cells which was 22 ( 7 ) % with platelets and 26 ( 10% ) without ( p>0.1 , n=7 pairs ) . |
| 19 | First , where he knowingly assists in a dishonest and fraudulent design or breach of trust undertaken by the insider , notwithstanding the fact that he did not acquire possession of the trust property ( ’ knowing assistance ’ ) . |
| 20 | Hopeless though it seemed , he did not abandon hope of finding a parent . |
| 21 | No summary data are presented and some of the individual trials did not measure quality of life at all . |
| 22 | His pipe was out but he did not relinquish hold of it . |
| 23 | The Czechoslovak authorities maintained throughout that all such arms deals were intended to help counter " problems of unemployment " , and that they did not represent part of the Czechoslovak Army 's own weapons stocks but were newly-manufactured weapons . |
| 24 | Both his mother and his brother found this new ruthlessness in Edouard 's character did not spare members of his own family . |
| 25 | Proast was restored in 1692 , but did not secure arrears of stipend , and the case dragged on until 1698 , in the reign of Archbishop Thomas Tenison [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | But revivalism in architecture did not mean lack of imagination or inventiveness — quite the reverse : it meant a prodigal outpouring of both . |
| 27 | This private proposal from a grouping of 10 of Britain 's biggest house-builders did not form part of the structure plan for north-east Hampshire , and was opposed by the county council as well as local residents . |
| 28 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 29 | The council contended that the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting that the road verges did not form part of the highway by the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner . |
| 30 | Early reconstructions of the temple placed these on square pedestals , but it is clear from the coins that the pedestals did not form part of the base of the columns . |