Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 14 a joint communiqué was issued outlining the guiding principles for settling the demarcation of their common border , which included not using force to resolve the issue . |
| 2 | In White and Collins v. Minister of Health ( C.A. , 1939 ) the Local Authority had certain powers of compulsory purchase in relation to land which did not form part of private parkland . |
| 3 | It is sitting as chairman or lay member of a tribunal which gives tribunals expertise , just as the senior barrister appointed to the Bench will soon acquire expertise in those areas of law which did not form part of his or her practice before appointment . |
| 4 | They stated that the government would spend half the revenues raised to pay debts and would cut expenditure in 1993 , including axing projects which did not generate jobs . |
| 5 | The offence was a one-off which did not affect convictions before or since , he added . |
| 6 | However , he said the spray being tested on the Edinburgh mice could be used on humans as it was a non-invasive treatment which did not involve surgery or injections . |
| 7 | The local police found no incriminating evidence at the scene and they believe that the theft , which did not involve office equipment and other items of value , was done by professionals . |
| 8 | The case was the first review of random testing of federal employees and the first in which the court upheld testing which did not involve workers concerned with public safety . |
| 9 | The community planner saw the NSLC as a strong and uniting force which did not create conflict between the neighbourhoods . |
| 10 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 11 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | In the event , PanAm , which did not serve Boston , seized the opportunity to introduce a London-New York-Boston ticket , in order to fly to New York on the lower Boston fare . |
| 13 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 14 | B : Inhibition of the binding of AR , RJ2.2.5 and Raji nuclear extracts to the X-box by anti-Fos antiserum ; binding reactions which did not contain anti-Fos ( — in lanes 3 , 6 and 9 ) were supplemented with 1 µg of non-immune antiserum . |
| 15 | This was necessary to create a convincing case for EC excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ which did not penalise spirits . |
| 16 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 17 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |
| 18 | I here was hardly a corner of British industry in the Sixties which did not suffer strike action of one sort ; much of it lengthy , acrimonious and ultimately futile . |
| 19 | Glimpsing into her daughter 's area — the strip of wall now hung with strange prints in clip frames and Ruth 's own latest exotic work , the mirror , the bells and shawls , flowers and cage and even , just above the chest , the white face of a dock which did not go Rachaela saw Scarabae . |
| 20 | The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland . |
| 21 | While in almost all cases the Liberal Democrats would vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not offer stability , factors such as the threat of war against Libya or an economic crisis with the pound ‘ dropping like a stone ’ would change the situation . |
| 22 | Synthesis was achieved only after some years , and only by methods which did not justify expansion to an industrial scale . |
| 23 | At length , with a sigh and in a conversational tone which did not match Dr Dunstaple 's oratory for effect , he observed : " Dr Dunstaple is quite wrong to suggest that there is an accepted treatment for cholera . |
| 24 | The Labour Party began to lose by-elections , and the performance of the Conservative Party improved substantially even in those seats which did not change hands . |
| 25 | The results of various empirical studies of the distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) which did not study index futures are summarized in Table 7.1 . |
| 26 | That defeat effectively extinguished the independence of the Bohemian kingdom which did not find expression again until 1918 in the new state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 27 | Most Tibbu lived in Zawiya , the central administrative settlement of Kufra ; but there were still some fifteen households at Qadr Fi , a marginally cultivable area which possessed Kufra 's only remaining palm-fronded houses , the only houses which did not have electricity and , in the central group of oases , the only ones without running water . |
| 28 | Of course to be a human one has to be male or female , Jew or Gentile : a being which did not have sex and race would not be human . |
| 29 | This class consisted of curved spaces without singularities , which were of finite size but which did not have boundaries or edges . |
| 30 | I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland . |