Example sentences of "[adj] who [vb past] not " in BNC.
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1 | Similarly , it was Rousseau 's conviction that no one could be truly free who did not govern him/herself , and that therefore only some kind of direct democracy provided the framework within which government and freedom could be reconciled . |
2 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
3 | Yet there are few who did n't recoil from the chill of The Silence of the Lambs or feel a sense of bleakness as JFK unfurled its theories . |
4 | But , as a two-time General Election loser — and a perceived drag on his own party 's prospects — there were few who did not concede that his career at the top of British politics was at an end . |
5 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
6 | And more to die before the firing squad , and few who did not wear the gold rings of the officers to escape the penalty of imprisonment . |
7 | There are probably still some children who are never allowed to see the genitals of the opposite sex as small children , but Freud found , even among upper-class children , that there were few who did not manage a way to see the genitals of the opposite sex before they were five or six years old . |
8 | We were glad we 'd probably be seeing him again some time , unlike some who had n't got out while the going was good . |
9 | There were wan smiles on the faces of some who did not think it was possible . |
10 | We found some workers who deliberately controlled levels of output and some who did not ; we found varied social mechanisms for controlling output . |
11 | And some who did not even know of the movie 's existence , who were not even born when it was made , are dead too , or mutilated , or orphaned … |
12 | Now , there were some who did n't drink , not many , and some who would n't drink , and Joicey always benefited from them all . |
13 | A record number of students took A-levels this year , but cuts in funding for popular university subjects such as arts and social sciences means some who did n't quite get the required grades may not get in . |
14 | A record number of students took A-levels this year , but cuts in funding for popular university subjects such as arts and social sciences means some who did n't quite get the required grades may not get in . |
15 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
16 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
17 | Of the remaining 7 who did not have repeat coronary arteriography there was acute resolution of the ST segment elevation in 4 . |
18 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
19 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
20 | ‘ There were two or three who did n't have any remorse ; these people I did n't feel comfortable with . |
21 | If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either . |
22 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
23 | I feel sad for all who did n't attend and for those who do n't even have the chance to attend something similar . |
24 | Crowds of people , including many who had n't been to a church for years , came to hear him . |
25 | Many who did not object to this in principle disliked the high-handed way it was adopted . |
26 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
27 | Charles was essentially a shopkeeper and pig butcher ; he turned his waste animal fats into tallow candles — a foul-smelling process at best — to sell to those who chose not to make their own , and also kept up a bit of a sideline in cheese — a product for which the area was , of course , justifiably famous . |
28 | By implication , of course , those who chose not to become part of the ‘ generalized other ’ were less than fully developed . |
29 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
30 | Promoting her new movie Forever Young , she quizzed reporters to see if they had watched the film — and vetoed interviews with those who had n't . |