Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forecast upsurge in takings did not happen . |
| 2 | As we know , it did not happen . |
| 3 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Thousands of Soviet television viewers yesterday heard Boris Yeltsin , the Communist Party rebel , warn of a ‘ revolution from below ’ if radical economic changes did not happen within a year . |
| 4 | He discovered that this did not happen . |
| 5 | History records that it did not happen ; the RCP was marginalised by the post-war economic revival . |
| 6 | In 1945 this did not happen : indeed , more than a decade was to pass before conscription was phased out . |
| 7 | This did not happen ; instead Soviet-American military rivalry generated the nuclear , conventional , and space arms races on a scale that dwarfed British efforts . |
| 8 | This did not happen during the golden years of 1966–80 : over that period GNP grew by an average of 10.4% a year and the workforce by 4.7% . |
| 9 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 10 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 11 | In the towns this did not happen — people watched indoors , in a guestroom . |
| 12 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 13 | Even if this did not happen , the idea that in the ‘ new Europe ’ envy , rancour and resentment can be abolished by a Europe directive is optimistic to say the least . |
| 14 | As Augustine pointed out , creation did not happen literally ‘ in the beginning ’ for it did not happen ‘ in ’ time : rather , time was itself a part of creation . |
| 15 | As Augustine pointed out , creation did not happen literally ‘ in the beginning ’ for it did not happen ‘ in ’ time : rather , time was itself a part of creation . |
| 16 | This did not happen . |
| 17 | Just occasionally Nails managed it , and saw that finding the rhythm and rising and falling to it was the nub of the whole uncomfortable business , but it did not happen very often . |
| 18 | It was possible to run all the winter services by railcoach , although this did not happen until the Marton route was modernised in post-war years . |
| 19 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 20 | Where this did not happen it would be possible for part of the membership of the Exchange Advisory Committees ( provided for in section 2 , subsection v of the Act ) to be co-opted to assist with the local education employment bureaux which were being started in Scotland and in parts of England . |
| 21 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 22 | And most companies that deal in both military and civilian products admitted to Maddock that transfers between the two ‘ did not happen to anything like the extent that was desirable ’ . |
| 23 | Other anticipated problems , like contamination of the mirror by dust around the spacecraft just did not happen . |
| 24 | This did not happen however . |
| 25 | They need to be tight to be waterproof , but these needed so much force I was scared of breaking the tube , although this did not happen . |
| 26 | ‘ If someone comes out with a car that looks like ours , that has the same windscreen , a roll bar in the same position and so on , that did not happen by accident . |
| 27 | That did not happen . |
| 28 | Mr Reed maintains that , even if such a late take-up did not happen often , ‘ it was common currency among merchant bankers as something that could happen ’ . |
| 29 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 30 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |