Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] [vb past] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also admitted that resellers did not know enough about Uniplex products . |
| 2 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 3 | That conclusion arose from a mathematical fact ( that operators did not commute ) , via rather abstract arguments involving the idea that the eigenstates of hermitean operators are the state vectors corresponding to the precise measurement of the observables the operators represent . |
| 4 | The fundamental difficulty , nevertheless , was that contemporaries had not ‘ foreseen … that the balance of payments on current account and the change in the gold and dollar reserves would bear little relationship to one another [ Cairncross , 1985 , 79 ] ; in particular there was a heavy outflow of capital to the sterling area . |
| 5 | Questioning from the floor , led by Mr Brook Land , a high-priced London lawyer representing the disgruntled Yehuda Mendelson , revealed that shareholders had not been fully informed of the arrangements between Norton and its chairman , Jimmy Tildesley . |
| 6 | Even in Britain Phelps Brown ( 1959 ) has shown that employers did not want to work in ‘ double harness ’ with their own men , that is to say , they would strongly resent their own workmen claiming to argue as unionists with them in their own works . |
| 7 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 8 | Noise had become Ariel 's lot : she , who had lifted her feet and put them down again so quietly on the slopes that birds did not stir at her passing , was used to hearing a single song in her head at any one time . |
| 9 | Multiple regression analysis suggests that readers did not find the highbrow press significantly more useful than the lowbrow press for any purpose : reading a highbrow paper had no influence in the multiple regressions for newspaper ‘ usefulness ’ ( Table 6.10 ) . |
| 10 | The conference lamented the fact that manufacturers did not produce small packs of goods for single-person households , and that retailers paid little or no attention to the needs of consumers who were handicapped by age or poverty . |
| 11 | ARRIVED AT Techno Towers to discover that computers had not yet been invented . |
| 12 | On the other hand , some staff may have underestimated dependency in order that homes did not appear understaffed . |
| 13 | Detailed studies of the arrangement of teeth within the jaws , and of their cell structure ( histology ) , have shown that rhynchosaurs did not replace their teeth in a typical reptilian way . |
| 14 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 15 | Chris said one of the biggest failings was that parents did not take part in the education of the children , this is where it fell down , that , once the education was seen as a government thing that |
| 16 | It struck Hoomey then that Nails did not want to go home , even — possibly — that he wanted company . |
| 17 | After a walk back to the inn and a half-hour wait , they set off again for Bath , very much relieved that matters had not been worse . |
| 18 | He returned thoughtfully to the Saint Pierre au gratin , only to discover that matters had not progressed well in his absence . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal held that menaces did not exist unless ( a ) they would affect the mind of a reasonable person or ( b ) did affect the mind of the victim and the accused knew that his actions were likely to have such an effect . |
| 20 | But he also said that dogs did not like to hunt with him at night … |
| 21 | In the years before the oil crisis dismissals were frequently justified by arguing that individuals did not merit tenure because they lacked commitment or because of their poor educational qualifications . |
| 22 | In the case of a totally sealed labour market , new employees would only be drawn from the families of existing staff , and efforts would be made to ensure that individuals did not seek places outside the firm . |
| 23 | ‘ We believe that ground-sharing is the only remaining viable option but it is up to the members now , ’ said Daley , who added that Butters had not been invited to the meeting . |
| 24 | It was held that volenti did not apply on these facts as the plaintiff had not consented to or absolved the defendant from subsequent negligence on his part . |
| 25 | Opposition Chief Whip Derek Foster , Bishop Auckland 's Labour MP , welcomed the news no one should have to wait longer than two years for treatment but called for reassurances that figures had not been ‘ massaged ’ . |
| 26 | The stock exchange 's ostensible reason for stopping the grey market was that investors did not have enough information about the Zeneca issue for trading to be ‘ fair ’ . |
| 27 | He was tired and upset , and troubled by a feeling that things did not add up — though without being able to pin down his dissatisfaction . |
| 28 | ‘ The plain truth is that farmers did not recognise the inevitable and lobby hard enough for their interests in what was an entirely predictable future . |
| 29 | Recognizing that authoritarians did not phrase their bigotry in unqualified statements , Adorno et al . |
| 30 | The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways . |