Example sentences of "it did not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 2 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 3 | It did not start the cauldron brewing but its members reacted to the simmering unrest that was their inheritance with an honest attempt to apply minds to what had always been the province of bigotry and emotion . |
| 4 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 5 | Joy , because it did not rest upon his own faith , strongly though he valued that : but when in the morass of doubt , one has no confidence in subjective attitudes such as faith . |
| 6 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 7 | Marx 's social theory , although it did not advance in any detail beyond the analysis of capitalism as a mode of production to a study of the state and politics , did none the less sketch a conception of political development which was assimilated into the doctrines and practices of a large part of the European labour movement . |
| 8 | And yet … the sun might shine , but it did not shine in her life . |
| 9 | Where equity supplemented the common law , as by the recognition of uses and the grant of equitable remedies for the infringement of legal rights , it was not particularly repugnant to common lawyers because it did not countermand their authority . |
| 10 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 11 | However , it did not long survive him . |
| 12 | Cattle stealing provided certain groups in rural areas with an opportunity to benefit from the economic changes along the coast and in the central highlands , but it did not long survive as an organized business once a district was penetrated deeply by plantations . |
| 13 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 14 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 15 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 16 | It did not refer to study technique but to finding a husband , a potential breadwinner , because realistically speaking , females were increasingly unlikely to obtain satisfactory employment on graduation . |
| 17 | It did not refer specifically to the grounds upon which the nullity of a public limited company might be ordered . |
| 18 | As an editorial in the British Journal of Religious Education put it , " It could equally be claimed that the syllabus is defective because it did not refer to Krishna , Allah and the Guru Granth Sahib anywhere . " |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman 's authority — Neath — has a debt of £25 million on its housing revenue account , yet last year it did not redeem a penny of it . |
| 20 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 21 | It did not match the growth of what he calls Producer Co-operation under Consumer control . |
| 22 | The bureau which was against the window wall and the chair beside it did not match the rest of the furniture . |
| 23 | Secondly , noticeable as was migration into , for example , west Lancashire , it did not match the continued pouring of people into London , for which city the evidence for a decline in real wages in the second half of the century is ample and conclusive . |
| 24 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 25 | It did not arrive at the arena until almost 4 o'clock , by which time everyone was thoroughly soaked and miserable . |
| 26 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 27 | If it did not manifest itself in this particular way , however , Aethelbald 's power was none the less real . |
| 28 | It also failed to deal with the unreasonably short times for notices of claims against carriers ; and it did not reverse the burden of proof that weighed upon the shipper whenever the carrier claimed the application of seemingly valid exculpatory clauses . |
| 29 | One derivative , later named methisazone , attracted interest because it was shown in clinical trials in Madras , in 1963 , to prevent people exposed to smallpox during an epidemic from developing the disease , even though it did not hasten recovery once the disease had developed . |
| 30 | It did not remain long unknown . |