Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of [noun] [vb past] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalists of Esquire did not specify the names of this country 's worst -dressed men . |
| 2 | If the trumpets of Britain had not been blown loud and long from St Mary 's , a different myth would have grown giving all the credit to America . |
| 3 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 4 | But Lloyd George underestimated the soundness of that edifice ; and the fact that the sinews of government did not atrophy after the British departure can largely be ascribed to the tradition of service personified by ‘ Rag ’ Pillai . |
| 5 | Tit-for-tat exchanges between the communities of Cairo did not necessarily end just because a man had been killed . |
| 6 | The companies of players did not perceive their plays as fixed texts , literary works which they felt some obligation to present accurately . |
| 7 | The years of decline had not really been reversed . |
| 8 | Some of the magnates of York had not shared his ambitions either , one had to believe . |
| 9 | It is a pity the needs of users did not rank too highly before £400m poured down the drain . |
| 10 | If , alternatively , it was a gift then it was incomplete , since the transfers of property had not been made and it might be said , therefore , that the cousins could revoke the incomplete gift . |
| 11 | Dreams and desires may have changed during the reform decade , but the conditions of society had not altered accordingly . |
| 12 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 13 | ‘ If the Inns of Court had not controlled the professional conduct of the Bar , the judges themselves would have had to do so . |
| 14 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 15 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 16 | The creatures of Riverbank did not see the big dog the next day . |
| 17 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 18 | The green lawns were bright and cut close , the thickets of daffodils had not quite died down along the edges of the drive . |
| 19 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 20 | He was no doubt contemplating not futurity but baffled Eternity itself : a universal Revelation outside nature guaranteed by a Christ whom the laws of nature did not spare . |
| 21 | However , influenced by the fact that the deterrence policy is firmly adhered to by the governments of the superpowers and has some political acceptability , and that the traditional doctrine of the laws of war did not apply to preparation for war , his eventual conclusion is that it would be difficult to state that any measures short of use are illegal . |
| 22 | Boyson apart , the findings of report did not go unchallenged . |
| 23 | Gabrielle attended the opening night , the play toured the country — although the citizens of Eastbourne did not have the pleasure of it because the local council would not allow it to be staged unless the title was changed — and the West End beckoned . |
| 24 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 25 | The Lords of Trade did not go themselves . |
| 26 | The Lords of Trade did not have to take such a close interest in the activities of the chartered companies , but the three large companies trading outside Europe were clearly providing London with trade that could not come in any other way . |
| 27 | The Lords of Trade did not like colonies owned by a single proprietor . |
| 28 | It was for this reason that I decided that the grounds of referral had not been established . ’ |
| 29 | Here , too , the types of subject did not change dramatically , considered in broad categories . |