Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than eight out of 10 consumers , out of a sample of about 1,500 , said their consumption of meat and fish was unaffected by health considerations and 60% did not care about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about salt , sugar or caffeine . |
| 2 | The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 . |
| 3 | This did not go down well . |
| 4 | This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab . |
| 5 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 6 | ( This did not go down well with the Lionisers . |
| 7 | ‘ The Commission and West Germany thought this did not go far enough — others thought it went too far , ’ says Haigh . |
| 8 | The main gathering of scholars was at Charles ' court , and it seems clear that there was a conscious attempt to restore classical glories , even though much of this did not percolate far beyond the royal circle of intimates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fortunately for Durkheim this did not present too many difficulties . |
| 11 | After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair . |
| 12 | This did not last long as the scale did not allow sufficient detail to be recorded and only some parts of Aberdeenshire were mapped in this manner . |
| 13 | He obtained a " loan " from the burgesses , but this did not last long . |
| 14 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This did not occur here ; the experience of unemployment can not be interpreted as causing preparedness to break the law by altering respondent 's general level of trust in the institutions of authority and the state . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | This did not happen however . |
| 21 | While this system may produce more than one letter string as a result , this did not happen often . |
| 22 | This did not happen significantly during the boom ; the trend was for unemployment to fall . |
| 23 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 24 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 25 | This did not augur too well for Patrick 's chances of winning £30,000 . |
| 26 | Kraal had long ago warned Creggan that autumn was Slorne 's worst time but so far this had not proved so . |
| 27 | According to them it was a wonder something like this had not happened before . |
| 28 | In the past MacArthur had frequently reiterated his wish for an early peace treaty but this had not happened recently . |
| 29 | This had not worked either . |
| 30 | Then there will be equality , as it is written : ‘ He who gathered much did not have too much , and he who gathered little did not have too little . ’ |