Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [vb infin] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not even see an English newspaper . |
| 2 | In more recent times and in a case which did not strictly involve an employee , Lord Diplock said that the real concern of the courts was simply to ask whether the party with the greater bargaining power had exacted an unfairly onerous benefit ( Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 616 ) . |
| 3 | They did not simply see an empty tomb and say : ‘ Coo , he must have risen ! ’ |
| 4 | The Swiss-born architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret , the adopted Frenchman Le Corbusier , proclaimed his new architectural style of tall buildings , but it did not readily strike an echo in Britain . |
| 5 | He did not lightly forget an injury , but he did not manufacture trifles into injuries . |
| 6 | He did not then make an appeal to Adam Smith , the intellectual inspiration behind Thatcherism , but went on : ‘ The greatest of Tories , Edmund Burke , reminded us of our duties as trustees for the nation , as good stewards of its traditions , its values and its riches . ’ |
| 7 | Those corps came into existence in the early 20th century , when it was discovered that attendance at university did not necessarily mean an ability to lead troops . |
| 8 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |
| 9 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 10 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 11 | Although there was no clear distinction between philosophy and the particular sciences , the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature . |
| 12 | Such a belief did not necessarily entail an uncritical acceptance of everything James II had done as King . |
| 13 | The move to war artist did not necessarily prove an easy path , since artists ran the gauntlet of their military colleagues , who considered them malingerers and sycophants . |
| 14 | The move to war artist did not necessarily prove an easy path , since artists ran the gauntlet of their military colleagues , who considered them malingerers and sycophants . |
| 15 | He was dressed in white : white shorts , a white T-shirt which did not quite cover an enormous stomach , and a white floppy hat with a white handkerchief covering the back of his neck . |
| 16 | As a consequence of the difficulties of poverty in which many working-class children were raised , education did not often provide an escape route for them and many , particularly in towns like Jarrow , faced the prospect of juvenile unemployment . |
| 17 | So I did n't even raise an objection when she insisted on touring the Story of Vadinamia museum , which included a lengthier account of the planet 's development than I could ever want — plus an equally detailed , and gruesome , study of life and death on the planets surface , |
| 18 | ‘ But we did n't even get an official reply . |
| 19 | Not one of the big places , but one of the little shop-sized Chinese cafes that did n't even display an English menu . |
| 20 | Well you 've had an E C G and we 've done chest X-rays and erm the E the electrical tracing of your heart did n't really show an awful lot but So er Anyway let's see what we 've got today . |
| 21 | We did n't really get an Indian summer right on the |
| 22 | But we were very lucky in , we , we did n't really have an awful lot of erm of air raids at all . |
| 23 | ‘ When I spoke to Wednesday chairman Dave Richards last week I did n't actually put an offer in . |
| 24 | Similar sort of thing , with the other , various other items , we did n't actually have an opportunity to , to rewrite all the bits . |