Example sentences of "did not [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 2 | This was a novel requirement and appeared inconsistent with the decision of the Lords in Newbury , where the defendants did not aim the stone , which killed the victim , at him . |
| 3 | The first rehearsals of an opéra would often be chaos if his talents , or activity , did not clarify the performance . |
| 4 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 5 | The defendants paid in cash the balance of £250 but did not deliver the lorries . |
| 6 | Her work entailed taking orders and payments for hampers , but when she was asked to supply hampers to one customer she kept the money and did not deliver the hampers . |
| 7 | Sandweg church was different from other churches on the island in that its frescos did not bear the imprint of the celebrated Elmelunde master but of some unknown artist who , it seemed , had neither painted nor supervised the painting of any other works of public art . |
| 8 | It has to be said , however , that despite passionate support from 105,000 fans in the Nou Camp , their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions . |
| 9 | Dacourt threw him an angry glance but , slightly mollified by Benjamin 's assertion that Vulcan did not bear the guilt for Waldegrave 's death , nodded and stumped off . |
| 10 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 11 | While he did not glamorize the Munich settlement , he insisted that ‘ the Prime Minister was right to choose the catastrophe of yielding to improper procedure rather than to choose the terrible catastrophe of war . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 13 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 14 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 15 | Frau Nordern did not give the lorries a second glance but dived down a side-street into a rather agreeable square . |
| 16 | And although Bryan Forbes made a stab at backing British filmmakers as head or production for EMI , the company that had taken over ABPC in 1969 , announcing 14 projects within months of taking over his new post , the line-up did not give the impression that he was in touch with any new sources of cinematic excitement . |
| 17 | A junior minister 's pay scarcely covers the cost of a man 's cartridges for the year , but Soames did not give the matter a second thought . |
| 18 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 19 | He did not mention his family and did not give the impression of a man with marital problems . ’ |
| 20 | Sophia Arkwright did not give the details , which Paul was to learn later ; the madman had slashed his wrists with a razor which a careless attendant had left within reach . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The company , which is trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , did not give the nine month figures . |
| 23 | A relative novelty for this important property was that , for once , Sotheby 's did not give the consignor a guarantee , correctly judging that with material this good there was little reason to feel the sale would not do splendidly . |
| 24 | Men did not give the impression that their sexuality was at all vulnerable . |
| 25 | The court took the view , which was to be expressly repudiated in later cases , that although there was jurisdiction to entertain the action against the German corporation , this did not give the Californian court jurisdiction over persons or property in Germany . |
| 26 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
| 27 | The 1952 Works Constitution Law spread workers ' powers more widely across German industry , although this act did not give the same degree of influence as was provided in the coal and steel industries . |
| 28 | The Commission and the applicants in the main proceedings considered that the genuine link which was required to exist between the ship and the flag state under the Conventions of 1958 and 1982 did not give the member states the power to enact their own laws with regard to flagging without having regard to the requirements of Community law . |
| 29 | All that the case decided was that the Food Controller was acting outside the Regulations since the Regulations did not give the power to tax . |
| 30 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |