Example sentences of "[art] [adj] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its show combined adventure , innovation and fun with the important wearability factor , and only the blinkered did not leave impressed . |
| 2 | The political implications of this dialogue of the deaf did not become fully apparent until the presidential elections of 1965 . |
| 3 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 4 | That the rich did not escape the scourge is evident at Crich in Derbyshire when , in October 1349 , William de Wakebridge added a small chantry chapel to the parish church in memory of his wife , his father , his two sisters and three brothers , all of whom had died of the plague in the summer of that year . |
| 5 | The large amphibians of the Palaeozoic did not survive beyond the Permian , and so our inferences about their modes of life have to be made entirely from the bony fossils that survive . |
| 6 | Thousands of ostraka have been dug up , the most famous being a batch of 191 with Themistocles 's name inscribed on them by only four separate hands — either fraud or an anti-Themistocles hit squad ensuring that the illiterate did not miss the chance to vote . |
| 7 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 8 | The English did not come . |
| 9 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 10 | The British did not fare so well . |
| 11 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 12 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 13 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 14 | The British did not help themselves by continuing to try to make more precise and explicit in the relationship what — at best — certain American policy-makers were prepared to concede only in private . |
| 15 | The British did not respond , partly because of their current involvement in the defence of Kuwait against an Iraqi threat . |
| 16 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 17 | For example , in asking why the French did not innovate like the British , one historian turns straight to economic factors . |
| 18 | The French did not suspect him yet , but sooner or later , as a matter of routine , would enquire his business in Vienna . |
| 19 | He said that although " the French did not agree to that issue initially … now we have managed to secure their agreement that we should remain in Eurodif as a shareholder in the company which enriches uranium " . |
| 20 | This the French did not grasp . |
| 21 | But exclusion of the mystical did not advance knowledge very far . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago the sight of Japanese tourists lounging in the tropical garden of a Balinese hotel roused curiosity , especially since the Japanese did not travel much for pleasure in those days , and these tourists were only in Bali for the weekend . |
| 23 | The Japanese did not want to talk about them , see them , hear about them , get married to them or employ them . |
| 24 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 25 | The strict out-door relief policy of the 1870s did not lead to a fall in total Poor Law expenditure . |
| 26 | The three did not come to trial until last week when they were each imprisoned for four years . |
| 27 | In so far as the poor did not crowd into the old central districts abandoned by their betters , their dwellings were built by small speculative builders , often little more than artisans , or by the constructors of those gaunt , overflowing tenement blocks expressively known in German as ‘ rent barracks ’ ( Mietskasernen ) . |
| 28 | The treason charges against the 18 did not specify the dates , location or nature of the treasonable acts they are alleged to have committed . |
| 29 | The gigantic figure had passed by Frankenstein as if the latter did not exist . |
| 30 | The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 . |