Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more to die before the firing squad , and few who did not wear the gold rings of the officers to escape the penalty of imprisonment . |
| 2 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 3 | There are probably still some children who are never allowed to see the genitals of the opposite sex as small children , but Freud found , even among upper-class children , that there were few who did not manage a way to see the genitals of the opposite sex before they were five or six years old . |
| 4 | But , as a two-time General Election loser — and a perceived drag on his own party 's prospects — there were few who did not concede that his career at the top of British politics was at an end . |
| 5 | There were wan smiles on the faces of some who did not think it was possible . |
| 6 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 7 | Many who did not object to this in principle disliked the high-handed way it was adopted . |
| 8 | Many of those who did not marry chose to live together instead . |
| 9 | For those who did not marry or emigrate , the war might bring change of a different kind . |
| 10 | Not everyone was patriote , and when it was finished and the enemy had left our soil , there were those who did not speak the truth about what happened . ’ |
| 11 | His election campaigns were notorious for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the depth of his involvement has never been clear . |
| 12 | Any other kind of propaganda — in favour of abstention , or rejection — was illegal , and an ordinance was even passed detailing the sanctions to be applied to those who did not vote on 7 July . |
| 13 | Those who did not vote were : Hilary Armstrong ( Lab Durham NW ) , Nicholas Brown ( Lab Newcastle upon Tyne E ) , David Clelland ( Lab Tyne Bridge ) , Frank Cook ( Lab Stockton N ) , Tim Devlin ( C Stockton S ) , Michael Fallon ( C Darlington ) , Conal Gregory ( C York ) , Doug Henderson ( Lab Newcastle N ) , Ashok Kumar ( Lab Langbaurgh ) |
| 14 | The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward 's plans . |
| 15 | The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward 's plans . |
| 16 | Those who did not sign would forfeit some legal rights . |
| 17 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 18 | My supremely useless watch , product of endless refinement and research , target of envy for those who did not possess one , was a small example of how his diseased mentality had triumphed . |
| 19 | Those who did not fulfil their clients ' wishes lost income . |
| 20 | I read in the December issue of Credit Management that council , at its October meeting , decided the 1992 subscription rates and also to penalise those who did not choose to pay by direct debit . |
| 21 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 22 | Those who did not want to buy a bigger or better house were able to borrow more to extract equity from their fast-appreciating assets . |
| 23 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 24 | Between those who did not want to hear and those who did not want to know , North was left , as George understood , alone . |
| 25 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 26 | It was decided to provide soft drinks and wine for those who did not want whisky and therefore two types of tickets , at different prices , would be on sale , £5 for whisky drinkers and £2 for the others . |
| 27 | We asked the women the average number of cigarettes they smoked a day and asked those who did not smoke whether they had ever smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 28 | A newsletter writer of August 1692 complained that it was impossible to distinguish between those who did not come to church because they were attending conventicles and those who did not worship God at all , and he predicted the result would be the downfall of the Church of England followed by the triumph of popery . |
| 29 | Both BBC viewers and those who did not watch the BBC were agreed on balance that it was biased towards the Conservatives though those who actually watched it were more evenly divided on the direction of BBC bias than those who did not ( Table 6.1 again ) . |
| 30 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |