Example sentences of "do [not/n't] occur [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intended words for examples 1 and 4 ( steep and books , respectively ) did not occur as alternatives . |
| 2 | This time the crisis did not occur as part of a general European crisis threatening France 's national survival . |
| 3 | The sequence was still largely without dates , and more importantly , the development from one broad technological phase to another did not occur at the same time everywhere . |
| 4 | In the inner- and outer-city work in Belfast , however , these forms ( for example , fronting , unrounding and diphthongization of /o/ to /au/ , as in home , stone ) did not occur at all in hundreds of hours of recording . |
| 5 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 6 | In a prior experiment , we demonstrated that phonological coding did not occur with Korean letters . |
| 7 | All this union activity did not occur without any reaction from the elite . |
| 8 | In fact this did not occur for a number of reasons . |
| 9 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 10 | Even so young Maggie was not a child to cheat ; it did not occur to her to prise the egg open , only to stay longer in the bath and to forget to take the soap out of the water , when she climbed out herself , pink and skinny . |
| 11 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 12 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 13 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 14 | They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him . |
| 15 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 16 | He heard evidence from nearly 200 witnesses after the Hillsborough disaster — and ‘ The People 's Game ’ was a phrase which did not occur to him . |
| 17 | It evidently did not occur to them that the people of Auckland felt the same . |
| 18 | It did not occur to her that she valued her relationship with Prince Richard more than the love of her children , and had anyone suggested this to her , she would have been mystified ; such a comparison was impossible . |
| 19 | It did not occur to him to bring his wife with him . |
| 20 | It did not occur to her to strip her bed down and change the sheets , or even to pull them back to see if there were any more where that one came from . |
| 21 | And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward . |
| 22 | It did not occur to him to propose to Emily and assume that he could live off his wife . |
| 23 | She heard his sobbing tale with less sympathy than was its due ; it did not occur to her that she herself , by coming here , had brought about all his troubles and her own . |
| 24 | It did not occur to them that , together , they could overpower the pair . |
| 25 | It did not occur to him that he might also have been frightened . |
| 26 | It did not occur to her until later that she could have asked to touch her daughter or kiss her goodbye , as her instinct urged . |
| 27 | It did not occur to the Jones that , for example , they were now insisting unswervingly on an 8pm bedtime , and that now Olwyn was being rewarded ( the bedtime story ) for making it on time . |
| 28 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 29 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 30 | it did not occur to him that there might be . |