Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the USA the absence of a strong socialist movement can to some degree be explained by ( a ) the ‘ newness ’ and apparent ‘ classlessness ’ of their social structures , especially the absence of an aristocracy ; ( b ) extensive social mobility ; ( c ) the multiplicity of ethnic cleavages ; and ( d ) the fact that universal suffrage arrived before large-scale industrialization , which meant that the working -class did not have to struggle for the franchise . |
| 2 | Another 23% did not make duty periods overlap to ensure continuous monitoring . |
| 3 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 4 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 5 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 6 | In Kufra , in 1979 , some people did not pay their contribution to the small boy who visited the houses , so their shaikh went in person . |
| 7 | It was not a uniformly creative search for reality : some people did not listen to news , and others did not interrogate the shortwaves with the sharp skill and interest exhibited so unexpectedly in the tent outside Ajdabiya . |
| 8 | However , the People 's Daily of Nov. 11 noted that some people did not have " a good understanding " of the need for austerity measures , and that such an attitude should be " resolutely rectified " . |
| 9 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 10 | Old people did not die so often . |
| 11 | This was an important line of argument which showed that many French people did not relish the idea of losing their independence to European bodies . |
| 12 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 13 | It is clear that Lenin 's references to ‘ primitive democracy ’ and the delegation of state functions to ordinary people did not mean that he thought there would be no place for administration in a socialist state . |
| 14 | We may reasonably assume from Franco 's portly appearance throughout the " hungry years " that dolphin sandwiches and low-quality fish did not constitute his staple diet . |
| 15 | The second question , asking whether dreaming is accompanied by flaccid paralysis , was agreed with by a surprising 48 respondents , although these people did not show themselves to be well informed about the other questions . |
| 16 | These people did not try to deceive anyone . |
| 17 | The occasional listings of inhabitants that survive for places up and down the country make it clear that older married people did not live with their married children , though they were often housed nearby . |
| 18 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 19 | Lucie McKenzie , speaking for Age Concern in Scotland , pointed out that about one third of elderly people did not claim the income support they were entitled to and therefore would not receive any extra money to help with additional heating costs . |
| 20 | Many people did not realise that there are different kinds of grammar , and that conventions in the use of language keep changing . |
| 21 | The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , said that research had shown that many people did not make a connection between environmental problems in general and their own wasteful use of energy at home . |
| 22 | Many people did not fill in this section and others made positive comments which are duplicated elsewhere |
| 23 | ‘ Many people did not appreciate how good Pallister was at Ayresome Park . |
| 24 | Looking back , it seems remarkable that only in the 1950s did white people come to accept — grudgingly for the most part — that black people did not need white people in positions of authority to lead and guide them . |
| 25 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 26 | There were concerts in the town , of course , but poor people did not go to concerts . |
| 27 | Deaf people did not escape their share of war-time tragedy and hardship , but the war benefited them in one very important respect . |
| 28 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 29 | These hapless people did not take flight in response to the spread of ‘ rumours of independence ’ . |
| 30 | I understand that about 1 billion people did not register in the recent census . |