Example sentences of "did [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A court notice reported the economic loss of the two vehicles , but did not mention any military casualties . |
| 2 | He denied all the charges against him except possession of the literature which he said was either on sale in public bookstores or did not advocate violence . |
| 3 | This did not mean , unfortunately , that human rights were being respected , but that regimes around the world were using new methods of repression such as ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions . |
| 4 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 5 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 6 | A thumbnail sketch by a friend brings Fénéon to life : ‘ He did not thrust himself upon you . |
| 7 | He did not take sides against Abstraction , even though he was one of the organisers of a Surrealist exhibition in London in 1937 . |
| 8 | ‘ The White Rabbit had put on his spectacles , but he did not know where to start . |
| 9 | The Aztecs did not have a term for ‘ fine arts ’ , nor did they speculate about aesthetics , nor make objects to be contemplated for their beauty alone . |
| 10 | He did not write an autobiography , but his letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience , especially artists . |
| 11 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 12 | He did not like Courbet 's subject . |
| 13 | We know that with major sculptures such as The Burghers of Calais and the Balzac , Rodin did not claim that they were equally successful from all points of view . |
| 14 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 15 | This vital fact proved its method of manufacture did not correspond to its supposed date . |
| 16 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 17 | for one thing , the group did not choose the name , which came from a reviewer 's description of a painting by Monet . |
| 18 | We do not know her name , though it is unlikely that the sculptor did not have a model . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 21 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 22 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 23 | Chatterton died the romantic and traditional early death of the divided , the invaded man , while Eliot did not . |
| 24 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 25 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
| 26 | Fascism did not like these substances . |
| 27 | Levi goes on to insist that the real witnesses are those who died in the camps , and that those prisoners who did not were mostly compromised people or privileged people : Solzhenitsyn is cited as making the same point about the pridurki — the ‘ prominents ’ of the Gulag system . |
| 28 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 29 | I did not believe a newspaper should be part of the apparatus of the state ; we are not a totalitarian society . |
| 30 | But the technocratic approach did not lessen discrimination but reproduced it in a subtler form . |