Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its show combined adventure , innovation and fun with the important wearability factor , and only the blinkered did not leave impressed . |
| 2 | The political implications of this dialogue of the deaf did not become fully apparent until the presidential elections of 1965 . |
| 3 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 4 | That the rich did not escape the scourge is evident at Crich in Derbyshire when , in October 1349 , William de Wakebridge added a small chantry chapel to the parish church in memory of his wife , his father , his two sisters and three brothers , all of whom had died of the plague in the summer of that year . |
| 5 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 6 | The large amphibians of the Palaeozoic did not survive beyond the Permian , and so our inferences about their modes of life have to be made entirely from the bony fossils that survive . |
| 7 | Thousands of ostraka have been dug up , the most famous being a batch of 191 with Themistocles 's name inscribed on them by only four separate hands — either fraud or an anti-Themistocles hit squad ensuring that the illiterate did not miss the chance to vote . |
| 8 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 9 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 10 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 11 | The English did not come . |
| 12 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 13 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 14 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 15 | The British did not fare so well . |
| 16 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 17 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 18 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 19 | The British did not help themselves by continuing to try to make more precise and explicit in the relationship what — at best — certain American policy-makers were prepared to concede only in private . |
| 20 | The British did not respond , partly because of their current involvement in the defence of Kuwait against an Iraqi threat . |
| 21 | They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America . |
| 22 | The French had not disappeared , and he had not imagined them.They were in Frasnes . |
| 23 | But the French had not managed to divert or to accommodate the forces of nationalism . |
| 24 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 25 | For example , in asking why the French did not innovate like the British , one historian turns straight to economic factors . |
| 26 | The French did not suspect him yet , but sooner or later , as a matter of routine , would enquire his business in Vienna . |
| 27 | He said that although " the French did not agree to that issue initially … now we have managed to secure their agreement that we should remain in Eurodif as a shareholder in the company which enriches uranium " . |
| 28 | This the French did not grasp . |
| 29 | But exclusion of the mystical did not advance knowledge very far . |
| 30 | Twenty years ago the sight of Japanese tourists lounging in the tropical garden of a Balinese hotel roused curiosity , especially since the Japanese did not travel much for pleasure in those days , and these tourists were only in Bali for the weekend . |