Example sentences of "did not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 2 | From a study of closely-dated deposits on Hadrian 's Wall , John Gillam did not date any of these vessels earlier than c . |
| 3 | ‘ Because he did not deliver all the papers . |
| 4 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 5 | The antibody titre did not bear any relation to the clinical activity , biochemistry ( data not shown ) , or the liver histology ( see Table III ) of the patients . |
| 6 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 7 | On first acquaintance I found the keyhole cockpit did not give such a positive feel to the boat as the smaller cockpit rims of glass boats but none of the students noticed this . |
| 8 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 9 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | This rather uncharitable remark possibly arose out of jealousy as Miller certainly did not give all his attention to the gentry , although , as Kalm said , the aristocracy did seek his advice . |
| 12 | It emphasized the problem of housing and jobs , but beyond looking at forms of area management and pleas for much financial help , the reports did not give all that clear a lead on policy . |
| 13 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 14 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 15 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 16 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 17 | He did not give much for Beales 's chances of getting in and out of the building unremarked . |
| 18 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 19 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 20 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |
| 21 | The other approximation using a finite tip radius did not give sufficient detail close to the actual crack tip where fracture was occurring . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They did not give any sign of interest in us . |
| 26 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 27 | The official return did not give any details about the population on that , or any other , day , but there was a breakdown of the characteristics of all prisoners admitted during 1987 . |
| 28 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |
| 29 | Although the statement did not give further details , other official sources confirmed that soldiers who saw a Palestinian carrying a firearm , a knife or other lethal weapon might open fire without further warning " in an attempt to stop him " . |
| 30 | 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 . |