Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the theory , the people who used such a system of terms did not themselves , however , practise such a type of marriage but actually practices the next stage . |
| 2 | This belief , regardless of whether it was justified or not , both stopped leaders acting contrary to public opinion and persuaded citizens to accept the legitimacy of laws they did not themselves agree with . |
| 3 | FoE does , however , have sympathy for businesses exposed to liabilities because they have unknowingly become owners of contaminated land that they did not themselves pollute ; as a result , for example , of buying land defiled by a previous owner . |
| 4 | Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) , in a highly influential work did not themselves draw any treatment conclusions ( although their ideas inspired a major treatment programme ) . |
| 5 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
| 6 | Teachers , on the other hand , objected ; teaching work should be carried out by people with teaching qualifications ( although here they were indeed on shaky ground as the majority of technical college lecturers at that time did not themselves possess qualifications in education ) . |
| 7 | However , they did not themselves participate in the commission of any offence ; nor did they act as ‘ agents provocateurs ’ or incite crime . |
| 8 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 9 | He devised a system of symbols which he found in dreams to represent more unbearable things which did not themselves appear in the dreams in order not to disrupt sleep . |
| 10 | We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture . |
| 11 | If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment . |
| 12 | They must possess some hidden function to compensate their obvious disadvantages , because if they did not they would have been eliminated by negative selection . |
| 13 | So why , if the bugs that the sneezing man spread about the bus were the cause of the illness , did not everyone get a cold ? |
| 14 | Did not everyone , of necessity , overlook a large part of what might be termed , for want of a better word , the truth ? |
| 15 | The devoted husband did not himself go to Cumnor , but sent his cousin , Sir Thomas Blount , to investigate . |
| 16 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
| 17 | The justice of the peace , on the other hand , did not himself try cases . |
| 18 | That he did not himself fly away is strong evidence for this belief , especially if predators prefer to attack lone birds , and we have further reason for thinking that the bird believes that . |
| 19 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 20 | Although the bulk of Galileo 's scientific work was designed to strengthen the Copernican theory , Galileo did not himself devise a detailed astronomy , and seemed to follow the Aristotelians in their preference for circular orbits . |
| 21 | Father McGiff , however , did not himself seem to share the surprise and it was clear that his participation had been decided on beforehand . |
| 22 | A trustee in a sequestrated estate , part of which consisted of a public house business , who did not himself hold the certificate or retail excisable liquor , was held not to be disqualified under the corresponding provision then in force : Lundie v. Magistrates of Falkirk ( 1890 ) 18 R. 60 . |
| 23 | It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise . |
| 24 | Marx did not himself create a systematic theory of the global system , though his work certainly guided Lenin and others in their attempts to construct a theory of imperialism . |
| 25 | Did not our Lord declare that His Father heard Him always ? |
| 26 | ‘ Did not your father 's parents lend a hand in your upbringing ? ’ |
| 27 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 28 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 29 | Culture thus transcends the lives of its living exponents in any one generation : if it did not it could not survive . |
| 30 | But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer . |