Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [conj] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | House prices up by one-third over two years could spell disaster for those leaving Britain who sold but did not reinvest in the housing market before returning home . |
| 2 | Of those two colleagues , interestingly enough , one is a health visitor by background , the other is a nurse , but someone who practised or has n't practised , but as a district health community planner for a number of years . |
| 3 | Thanks to everyone who called but did n't get through . |
| 4 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 5 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 6 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
| 7 | By contrast , the difference between those who did and did not watch BBC-TV widened : so the effect of television viewing rose from 12 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 20 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 8 | Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened . |
| 9 | Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets . |