Example sentences of "did not [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 2 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 3 | Luke even hints that the Romans did not carry out the execution of Jesus but that the responsibility was that of the Jews ( Luke 23:25–26 ) . ) |
| 4 | The man he left in charge did not carry out the duties expected of him . |
| 5 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 6 | ‘ I did not throw down the gauntlet ! |
| 7 | At the presentation , Sir Humphry did not pass up the chance to impress upon the business world the great value of science to their endeavours : ‘ Science , gentlemen , is of infinitely more importance to a state than may at first sight appear possible ; for no source of wealth and power can be entirely independent of it ; and no class of men are so well able to appreciate its advantages as that to which I am addressing myself . |
| 8 | The court in the Reference did not lay down a closed list : the public interest was the governing consideration . |
| 9 | That arranged between Henry V and Duke Philip of Burgundy , imposed upon the sick king , Charles VI , and then formally registered ( or approved ) by France 's highest judicial body , the Parlement , did not carve up the kingdom , at least not on paper . |
| 10 | If the frustration of subsequent queues for material did not bring about the state clearinghouses , then easier local access for librarians to material in their own state certainly encouraged their establishment . |
| 11 | However , this revelation did not bring about the destruction of Euclidean geometry , it simply added to it . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 13 | The previous constant price system did not bring out the effect of , for example , the rapid relative rise in public service pay in 1979–80 resulting from the Clegg Commission and other comparability awards . |
| 14 | The previous constant price system did not bring out the effect of , for example , the rapid relative rise in public service pay in 1979–80 resulting from the Clegg Commission and other comparability awards . |
| 15 | For Christine , a nursery school teacher living near Manchester , now that most the ‘ teething troubles ’ with Anna are over , there is only one sadness : that she did not bring back a second child . |
| 16 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 17 | Rory did not switch on a light , but strode to the window and jerked back the drapes . |
| 18 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 19 | So long as the Algerian and Berlin crises were continuing , de Gaulle did not spell out the full implications of this threat , although his decisions , in 1959 , to withdraw the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO and to deny the US permission to base atomic weapons in France were clearly designed to reinforce the original message . |
| 20 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
| 21 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 22 | Hence the acceptance of professionalism did not set up a free market in football but bound players legally to one club and determined the maximum wage that could be paid to them . |
| 23 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 24 | The Director of Studies then asked why the syllabus did not set out the relationship between assessment criteria and objectives more explicitly . |
| 25 | She noted that , if the shareholders decide against the increase , ‘ we have other offers , ’ and did not rule out a return to EDS . |
| 26 | Although police in subsequent statements inclined towards a simple robbery motive ( the killer stole Fr Men 's briefcase ) , they did not rule out a political motive . |
| 27 | Although it did not rule out a return to multiparty politics per se , the PNDC argued that in the past this had only bred " hatred , division and bloodshed " . |
| 28 | He said the battle over the motorway extension was important for the whole of Europe , and he did not rule out a further legal challenge . |
| 29 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
| 30 | At the time of writing they had not selected anyone to contest East Hampshire but a spokesman did not rule out the possibility before nominations closed . |