Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some nervousness that perhaps modular courses did not deliver a satisfactory educational experience from the viewpoint of the student . |
| 2 | In reality , from the study of the videotapes made of the language performance of most of the 150 people who took part , the language level actually being achieved did not bear a great similarity to the BSL as used by deaf people . |
| 3 | However , a report prepared over five years by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , released in August , concluded that the USA did not bear a disproportionate share of the NATO burden . |
| 4 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 5 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 6 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 7 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 8 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 9 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 10 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 12 | City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible . |
| 13 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 14 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |
| 15 | I did not want a post-modernist confusion . |
| 16 | She did not want a prolonged discussion , she wanted only that he should go away . |
| 17 | Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets . |
| 18 | She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes . |
| 19 | In 1949 Beryl found that she was pregnant again , but did not want a second child . |
| 20 | Maybe he did not want a second game on their pitch . ’ |
| 21 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 22 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 23 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 24 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 25 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 26 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 27 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 28 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |
| 29 | He and Jenny were sufficient for each other ; they did not want a third person , especially a person whose tastes were so dissimilar and who did not fit in with their lives or their friends . |
| 30 | Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense . |