Example sentences of "[adj] do not [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 This did not go down well .
2 This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab .
3 This did not go down as well as he might have hoped .
4 ( This did not go down well with the Lionisers .
5 The videos focused on individuals and their themes and this did not feed back into departmental meetings and certainly not into a whole-school context .
6 However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills .
7 This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface .
8 At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about .
9 So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ .
10 The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon .
11 However , this does not rule out worker participation in Dr Lis ' plans .
12 This does not rule out evolution by mutation and selection .
13 There is no extradition treaty between Iran and Britain , though this does not rule out granting a request , if properly formulated .
14 Even if there has been an infection , this does not rule out the possibility of food sensitivity : diarrhoea of any sort can sensitize the gut so that foods which were previously eaten without trouble now produce symptoms .
15 While this does not rule out the risk of a change of regime there , it does cut down the danger of a simple change of heart by the existing government .
16 This does not rule out the possibility of critique which by investigation of the structure and forms of ideology as materialized expression ( discourse ) , can affect the forms of human practice .
17 Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner .
18 This version of the story is almost certainly inaccurate since settlements during the strike were made , not nationally but port by port , at different rates , though this does not rule out some other contingent disagreement between Shinwell and Wilson .
19 Given the time-lag , this does not rule out that one or both of these sculptors worked on this temple in their youth ; but in the case of Alkamenes ( about whose career we hear a good deal ) it is a difficult supposition , and not very easy for Paionios .
20 There are plausible ways of doing this , but this does not rule out post-accretional veneering .
21 But this does not rule out a high response to real wage changes which are thought to be temporary : for example , suppliers of labour may well want to take advantage of a temporarily high real wage by supplying more labour , taking leisure ( that is , supplying less labour ) when the real wage has fallen back .
22 The practise of putting grease in the swivel housings should be avoided as this does not travel up to the front wheel bearings and leads to their premature failure .
23 This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life .
24 Large numbers of women still work in the non-formal sector and in agriculture , but this does not show up in statistics .
25 It may be that Candida is overabundant , but that this does not show up in the stools because the yeast is attached to the gut wall in some way — perhaps in its hyphal form .
26 However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all .
27 However , because it is very difficult in practice to evaluate the integrals which this method involves , this does not turn out to be a convenient method for obtaining explicit solutions .
28 Surprisingly sometimes this does not come over in the investment overview or information memorandum .
29 This does not tie up entirely with the records of Hal Far , which noted that three Fulmars went up , and that one was damaged and the pilot slightly wounded .
30 It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 .
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