Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , she thought , if ordeals like that first night in Nice did not happen again , it might yet be possible . |
| 2 | Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Parma did not offer us much in the way of solid information . |
| 3 | The weekend with chums in Chichester did not seem , on the Monday 's showing , to have left Micky Banks much time to look at his lines . |
| 4 | Lord Macnaghten in Pemsel did not aspire to a definition , but only to a classification of the then existing case law . |
| 5 | It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time . |
| 6 | Don Juan was in exile and his supporters in Spain did not have the military or political support necessary to effect a successful coup . |
| 7 | It added dryly that heavy discounting by Texas Home Care in Scotland did not bode well for the sector , and included a range of profit downgrades — from previous forecasts of between £108m and £118m down to between £100m and £110m for this year , and between £110m and £125m for next year . |
| 8 | The social workers in Orkney did not go to the children 's teachers before the removal of the children to find out if there were any problems at school . |
| 9 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 10 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 11 | Hardly a county in England did not possess extensive heathlands . |
| 12 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 13 | Chinese students in Beijing did not march as their counterparts did in several provincial cities . |
| 14 | ( e ) The House in Morris did not regard themselves as saying anything which conflicted with Lawrence . |
| 15 | Lord Lane CJ stated : ( a ) If there was a conflict between Lawrence and Morris , the latter was to be preferred , but the Lords in Morris did not see a conflict . |
| 16 | ( Just one of the confusing matters in this area of the law is that Lord Roskill in Morris did not say this . ) |
| 17 | The war in Abyssinia did not have much effect on the people of Fontanellato . |
| 18 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
| 19 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |
| 20 | A survey in 1987 found that 52 per cent of the workforce in Britain did not undertake training . |
| 21 | It may be a sign of the times , but Craig Innes ' switch to rugby league in Britain did not draw much newspaper comment in New Zealand . |
| 22 | The demonstration of discrimination at St George 's Hospital Medical School led to a flurry of reform , but a paper published in the BMJ in 1990 showed that doctors from ethnic minorities who had trained in Britain did not progress as fast in their career as native European doctors . |
| 23 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 24 | The railways in Britain did not take the lead in developing the suburbs . |
| 25 | It seems remarkable that the three who remained in France did not abandon their mission following the arrests in Ireland . |
| 26 | Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , spitting passengers on the Tyneside Metro and a beggar bothering passers-by in Durham did not impress Mr Gregory , who travelled incognito to check up on politeness . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal in Spratt did not hold DPP v K to be incorrect on the point that the injury was indirectly caused ( for the facts see later ) . |
| 29 | Only one trial in Asia did not find significantly lower child mortality with vitamin A supplementation ; however , even in that trial , the lower 95% confidence interval on the ratio of the mortality rates was below 0.81 . |
| 30 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |