Example sentences of "it did not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not unambiguously affirm the uniqueness of Christ . |
| 2 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 3 | It did not properly highlight the nature of the church or the church 's mission to the world . |
| 4 | In his view the SFO should adopt a code of conduct enshrining these ideas if it did not already have one . |
| 5 | Paragraphs thirteen and fourteen recommended that the Government should immediately buy the parts of the site of the offices shown on the competition plans that it did not already own , along with the block of buildings between King Street and Parliament Street . |
| 6 | Thus , the work of Fama et al on the significance of scrip issues indicated that the issues themselves did not tell the market anything it did not already know from its analysis of the company 's performance during the 30 months before the split . |
| 7 | It did not also say that Mr Major was yet much of a Prime Minister . |
| 8 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 9 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 10 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 11 | She had little money for clothes , but that did not matter ; it did not even matter , much , to her , though sometimes she wished she had more than two dresses , one pink , one grey . |
| 12 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 13 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 14 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 15 | One may ask what account the firm took of the duties it owed of confidentiality and good faith , bearing in mind that , far from inquiring whether the BR board would object , it did not even say what it was doing . |
| 16 | The bill claimed to be ‘ putting the patient in the driving seat ’ , but it did not even allow patients to be consulted if a hospital decided to opt out of regional health authority control , he said . |
| 17 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 18 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 19 | A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers . |
| 20 | For two years until autumn 1991 and Dr Chiappini 's appointment , it did not even have a director . |
| 21 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 22 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 23 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 24 | The reticence of the General Council was deliberate for it feared the violence which might ensue if all workers came out and was alarmed at the prospect of mass defections leading to the rapid collapse of the dispute if it did not immediately meet its objectives . |
| 25 | Although completed and ready to fly in October 1945 ( when short hops are reported to have been undertaken ) it did not officially fly until April 24 , 1946 on which date the other Soviet jet , the MiG–9 , also took to the air shortly before the Yak . |
| 26 | It did not simply result in a situation in which the Liberals won 2.2 per cent of the Commons seats in return for 19.3 per cent of the national vote since Labour also sneaked into office with only 37.1 per cent of the votes cast — less than the Conservative total . |
| 27 | It did not simply cover recruitment from within the circle . |
| 28 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 29 | The Counter-Reformation crushed the spirit of Protestantism in Slovenia , but it did not completely suppress the influence of Trubar and his contemporary Slovene writers . |
| 30 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |