Example sentences of "[Wh det] do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 2 | Indeed , he has commented that the only sensation that he recalls from his youth ( which did not evaporate on his coming of age ) was one of persistent desire . |
| 3 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 4 | He had suffered severe migraine which did not respond to conventional treatment . |
| 5 | To scoffs of disbelief from some delegates , he asserted that , where managed safely and sensibly , nuclear power was one of the few energy sources which did not pollute the atmosphere . |
| 6 | However , there was no committee report until February 1988 and even then information was sketchy , providing merely a summary of activity which did not reveal its scale . |
| 7 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 8 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | In the face of their insistence and that of Arab League negotiators , he warned them not to settle for any deal which did not involve the withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 Syrian troops based in west Beirut and the hinterland . |
| 10 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 11 | Another sign of security was the rising number of households which did not need to buy seeds , but planted their own 634 in the autumn of 1922 , as against 554 in 1920 . |
| 12 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 13 | We engaged in the game of looking for something which did not exist . |
| 14 | There were predictable objections from departments which did not want to have their own policy advice scrutinized by outside experts . |
| 15 | The opposition parties , however , were unwilling to accept any programme of economies which did not involve a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 16 | The Bristol 167 was to be Britain 's great new advance on American types such as the Lockheed Constellation and Douglas DC-6 , which did not have the range to fly the Atlantic non-stop . |
| 17 | Prior to the 1753 Marriage Act , the state made few serious attempts to suppress either contract marriage , which consisted of a verbal promise , or clandestine marriage , which involved a religious ritual and witnesses but which did not conform to the dictates of canon law . |
| 18 | Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry . |
| 19 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 20 | Herr Nordern had been about to say ‘ the bunker , ’ the stretch of waste land behind Friedrichstrasse where , in his concrete tomb , as the Russians had battered their way into the city in 1945 , Hitler had lived his final appalling fantasy ; commanding armies which did not exist , so condemning thousands , hundreds of thousands of civilians to death in those final lunatic days . |
| 21 | In the United Kingdom , Derry/Londonderry was the first and their game was called The Maiden City , presumably in order not to alienate that half of the community which did not approve of either the name Derry or Londonderry . |
| 22 | Early efforts to become involved in multi-agency approaches to crime and associated topics were painful experiences … we wanted to maintain the lead in every forum , to be the gatekeepers of power and have the right of veto if decisons were made which did not suit us . ’ |
| 23 | The day after the declaration , which did not seem at first to be being taken seriously in Washington , Gen Noriega 's troops escalated the crisis into a confrontation . |
| 24 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 25 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 26 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 27 | In 1984 , during re-authorisation hearings on the Act , the US Congress directed the NMFS to develop regulations that would require an automatic embargo of tuna from any country which did not comply with the US dolphin-kill quota and requirements for dolphin rescue . |
| 28 | The sales department refused to accept any cars from the factory which did not meet rigid quality guidelines . |
| 29 | Buick decided to shed cars which did not fit its image , like the Grand National . |
| 30 | Richards took the new ball — which did not shoot — and Ellison and Thomas played quite contentedly for two hours , putting on 72 for the last wicket , a new England record in the West Indies , taking the total to 315 . |