Example sentences of "did not [verb] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |
| 2 | It did not specify what the components of the model were made of , but only their formal relationships . |
| 3 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 4 | Provided it was in the form of a thin whisker , it did not matter what the chemical nature of the stuff was or by what method the whiskers were grown . |
| 5 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 6 | It did not matter what the man looked like , but he should be listened to . |
| 7 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry to distress you , sir , but your committee did not like what the Admiral was proposing to do . ’ |
| 9 | Rain had to be guarded so that people around her did not follow what the call was about . |
| 10 | And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’ |
| 11 | These PMR systems were even less secure than land lines so he did not ask what the problem was . |
| 12 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 13 | I did not understand what the man was doing , but I wanted to be near the fire . |
| 14 | He did not hear what the Woman said next . |
| 15 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 16 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 17 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 18 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 19 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Robertson , QC for Mr Henderson , told the judge after the acquittals : ‘ The prosecution was brought by one hand of the Government which did not know what the other hand was doing . ’ |
| 21 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 22 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 23 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 24 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 25 | The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about . |
| 26 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 27 | Mr Ruddy said he did not know what the two were doing . |