Example sentences of "in [adj] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appealed on several grounds , but particularly that ‘ an agreement by two or more persons to insert advertisements in a magazine for the purpose of homosexual acts taking place between consenting adult males in private did not constitute an offence ’ . |
| 2 | The background to its conclusion in 1933 did not affect its character as a concession agreement , and the United Kingdom remained a third party . |
| 3 | In the early 1930s , IBM developed the first modern accounting machine , which was designed for banks , but banks in 1933 did not buy new equipment . |
| 4 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 5 | It was a source of great satisfaction to both branches of the profession when the Benson Commission 's Report in 1979 did not propose any radical change , though the Report was generally unpopular with other commentators . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time . |
| 8 | The fact that Henry was not in possession of those areas in 1259 did not mean that he or his successors might not actively revive their claims . |
| 9 | The division between counties and county boroughs established in England and Wales in 1888 did not provide a settled and agreed pattern for the future . |
| 10 | Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest . |
| 11 | Most MPs who voted against Lloyd George in 1922 did not envisage a Unionist government as the final outcome , and the defeated ministers did not expect their discomfiture to be permanent . |
| 12 | Speakers at a Beverley antislavery meeting in 1824 did not believe that slaves needed ‘ foreign stimulus ’ to make them rebel ; their own sufferings were sufficient . |
| 13 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |
| 14 | It is the driver 's legal responsibility to ensure that children under 14 are strapped in but spot checks by the RAC showed nearly seven in ten did not comply . |
| 15 | That the White Revolution was massively acclaimed by referendum in 1973 did not commend it any the more to the clergy . |
| 16 | CCETSW , in a survey of social work qualification courses , found one in nine did not include anything on substance problems , and only one in 20 students was given practice training with specialist alcohol or other drug services . |
| 17 | In England , women in general did not acquire access to relatively safe abortions until 1967 and then only on a limited basis . |
| 18 | London Transport was inconsistent in applying the class title ‘ E/l ’ to these cars and in general did not apply class letters to cars acquired from the smaller undertakings . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) That he failed to explain the transaction properly to the wife and in particular did not make it clear to her that the charge attached to her beneficial interest in the property ( the home ) as well as her husband's. ( 6 ) In the circumstances under ( 4 ) Mr. Williams was negligent in his dealings with Mrs. Perry . |
| 20 | Their perfectly logical conclusions are that the Falange and its predecessor the JONS were the only unambiguously fascist organizations in pre-Civil War Spain ; that the CEDA in particular did not deserve the epithet ‘ fascist ’ ; that after a sudden expansion during 1936 the Falange was politically neutered in April 1937 through its enforced merger with Carlism and the Catholic right ; and that the subsequent regime , utterly dominated by the non-Falangist Franco , was therefore not fascist — whatever else it may have been . |
| 21 | Wilson in particular did not shine in comparison . |
| 22 | This sought to demonstrate a concept of surplus which , taking besides labour other inputs — land , skill and ability , capital — into account , did not rely upon Ricardo 's labour theory of value ; but went on to conclude that , under Capitalism , the inputs are not rewarded by reference to the parts they play in the creation of wealth and that labour in particular did not get its fair share . |
| 23 | South Yorkshire in particular did not conform to the normal definition of a conurbation . |
| 24 | If viewing was considered by the week , however , TV was virtually universal : barely one person in twenty did not see something in an average week in 1986 ( BBC , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | In London 's Victoria Station , a kiosk displayed over 700 magazines — 40 on computing , 75 on music and hi-fi , others on skateboarding , home freezers , body-building , and many other categories ( including soft porn ) that in 1945 did not exist . |
| 26 | The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on April 23 that landowners and industrialists whose property was expropriated during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany in 1945-49 did not have a right to its return , and that this was not counter to clauses in the federal Constitution on the right to property and equal treatment before the law . |
| 27 | The use of a local lawyer as the team spokesman after two All Blacks were involved in a post-match scuffle in Llanelli in 1989 did not reflect at all well on Sturgeon 's ability as a manager who could stand aside and view the matter dispassionately . |
| 28 | The introduction of higher fees in 1956 did not solve the District 's financial problems , only make them manageable . |
| 29 | Sacheverell 's defence counsel in 1710 did not deny that their client had defended non-resistance , but tried to define non-resistance as applying only to the Crown-in-Parliament , rather than the monarchy itself . |
| 30 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |