Example sentences of "and did not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 2 | Thus , Oedipus married Jocasta and knew he did ; he also married his mother and did not know he did . |
| 3 | She was new to the country and did not have many friends . |
| 4 | The problem with the old board was that it did not innovate and did not concern itself with exporting English hops . |
| 5 | It looked hard and did not disappoint . |
| 6 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 7 | Kark Weschke , at the Redfern Gallery , is Expressionist in a more orthodox fashion — not surprisingly , since he was born in Germany in 1925 and did not come to England until 1948 . |
| 8 | With deference to the Divisional Court and without considering whether its decision could be supported on alternative grounds , his Lordship took the view that the Divisional Court 's judgment went too far and did not support the conclusion it reached . |
| 9 | While the Canadian business has been profitable , WH Smith believes the returns being obtained on £75m of sales from 200 outlets are not comparable with the returns that can be obtained in other markets and did not justify the future investment necessary to develop the chain . |
| 10 | Becker and Graf won Wimbledon and the US Open and did not get their pictures on the front cover of any non-tennis magazines here . ’ |
| 11 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 12 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 13 | By contrast , the difference between those who did and did not watch BBC-TV widened : so the effect of television viewing rose from 12 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 20 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 14 | Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened . |
| 15 | They followed him to the study because for economy it was the only fire in the house , but he worked through their conversation and did not join it . |
| 16 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |
| 17 | They consulted the archbishop or archbishops , took their advice , did not persist if the archbishop brought good reasons for a contrary opinion , and did not allow their ‘ patronage secretary ’ any ‘ independent ’ authority . |
| 18 | But before the end of the conversation he realized how vocation pulled Ramsey towards Durham , and talked about ‘ a theological bishop ’ and did not discourage . |
| 19 | By now he had discovered what archdeacons do , and did not have to do everything himself . |
| 20 | Their bachelor predecessor had no such eye and did not try to change it . |
| 21 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 22 | These early Acts stemmed very largely from sanitary powers , and did not provide any financial assistance beyond powers of borrowing money . |
| 23 | The table makes it clear that the bulk of overseas government expenditure was incurred within the rest of the sterling area ( RSA ) , and did not therefore add directly to the dollar problem . |
| 24 | Most of the expenditure was outside the dollar area , and did not give rise to immediate dollar payments . |
| 25 | The Treasury view as proclaimed in 1929 was the work of Leith-Ross and others , and did not long survive the political circumstances of its birth — a split in the Cabinet over employment policy . |
| 26 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 27 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 28 | In the 1880s , the large herds of the kingdom of Karagwe in western Tanzania were severely depleted by rinderpest , and did not recover for several decades . |
| 29 | It was unpopular politically , as it involved a good deal of compulsion , and did not survive the chaos of independence . |
| 30 | It was claimed that the chairman never went fishing and did not own his boat . |