Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 2 | Even such an excellent scholar as Wyld , who was extremely interested in the social motivations of change , did not give sufficient weight to the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 3 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 4 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 5 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 6 | If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . |
| 7 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 8 | They did not want outside intervention in the collective bargaining process from representatives of more broadly-based trade unions since such interference could be inimical to the preservation of paternalistic employee relations within the undertaking ( Okochi et al . , |
| 9 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 10 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 11 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 12 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 13 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 14 | At the beginning of March , 75% of our supporters did not want Civic Forum to become a political party . |
| 15 | Yet party leaders did not want direct control , in case TANU was banned : they wanted the paper to be able to continue even in the event of this happening . |
| 16 | Local authorities , however , faced with the need to make the most effective use of school buildings and staff , did not make parental choice the paramount consideration . |
| 17 | It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable . |
| 18 | But although her explanation made logical sense — it did not make emotional sense . |
| 19 | An enormous amount of meaning would disappear if speakers and hearers did not make heavy use of affective cues — like tone of voice , hesitating and hedging . |
| 20 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 21 | This did not make happy reading in Noel Murphy 's end of tour managerial report . |
| 22 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 23 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 24 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 25 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 26 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 27 | The basis of this professional disagreement was I think that Professor B. did not regard artificial ventilation as being a ‘ cruel treatment ’ and took a much more optimistic view than Dr. I. as to the likelihood of it being possible to wean J. from such ventilation if it were ever undertaken . |
| 28 | ‘ I did not relish visiting Gayfield when I was a Celtic player and my team now has as good a chance of beating Rangers as anybody else . |
| 29 | Dr Tweedy stressed that from the Christian point of view , it was a necessity to look after our God-given body , and there was an obligation to receive treatment if it did not involve undue risk , was not distressing and was practically viable — in other words , ‘ ordinary medical treatment ’ . |
| 30 | These are accidents that did not involve personal injury but involved er physical damage to walls , cars , gates , driveways etc. , with cars coming down the road . |