Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 2 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 3 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 4 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 6 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
| 7 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 8 | Police added : ‘ She did not say anything to the boy 's aunt and left no notes before leaving . |
| 9 | In accordance , however , with the normal practice , the court considered the whole case and did not confine itself to the objections in point of form to the surrejoinder . |
| 10 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 11 | This view did not commend itself to the pope . |
| 12 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 13 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 14 | On this occasion , it once more called for the formation of a popular front against fascism , which did not endear it to the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 15 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |