Example sentences of "[that] they did [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 2 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 3 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
| 4 | The introduction of summary financial statements ensured that building society members did not have to cope with extensive , detailed financial information that they did not want and could not be expected to understand . |
| 5 | At a meeting at the end of 1989 between Navan Resources and the islanders , the company were told by the islanders that they did not want gold mining . |
| 6 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 7 | As soon as the redundancies were announced , just over half of those who retired before the pension age decided that they did not want to go through the process of trying to find work . |
| 8 | Instead , there were various individuals — Ferdinand , Isabella and their councillors — and the fact that they did not want the unification of Spain and the Hapsburg lands is presented as decisive evidence against Braudel 's view . |
| 9 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 10 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 11 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 12 | It is not clear from the report in Willmott v. Atack whether the police had made it plain that they did not want the defendant 's ‘ help , ’ and , if so , what impact that has on the state of the law . |
| 13 | It is in my mind that they did not want to kill me , but Isay was left to face them alone . |
| 14 | Naomi Roberts concluded her period of volunteering early because she felt she was giving Ghanaians something that they did not want ( Endpiece NI 209 ) . |
| 15 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 16 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 17 | Only two trade unions indicated that they did not want to be part of the SZOT confederation . |
| 18 | The five leading members of the party at the centre of the controversy , Pearnel Charles , Errol Anderson , Karl Samuda , Edmund Bartlett and Douglas Vaz , although stating that they did not want to unseat Seaga , refused to give a public statement of unconditional loyalty to him . |
| 19 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 20 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |
| 21 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 22 | ‘ They had talked openly of their respective marital difficulties at Sandringham last Christmas , although the Duchess insists that they did not make a pact by which they would both end their marriages this year . ’ |
| 23 | There had been no ceremony about any of it , for ceremony of any kind seemed to be something that they did not embrace . |
| 24 | The group went round the course for month after month but wisely came to the conclusion yet again that they did not intend to alter the basis of the health service . |
| 25 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 26 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 27 | On 25 July , the Official Solicitor visited the dockers in prison , but they made clear that they did not intend to give any undertakings of obedience to the NIRC or to apologize — which is normally essential before those in contempt are released . |
| 28 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 29 | Their applications were refused on the grounds that they did not meet the admission criteria . |
| 30 | The Rouhanyoun faction protested as some 1,100 prospective candidates were eliminated by the committees on the grounds that they did not meet minimum educational and other standards . |