Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 2 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 3 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 4 | Ossie has not signed a contract but we have shaken hands on a three-year deal . ’ |
| 5 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 6 | The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported . |
| 7 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 8 | For example , if an authority has granted planning permission to A but building has not yet started , B might be able to get the permission revoked . |
| 9 | English Heritage pays tribute to the work of Wandsworth borough council in ensuring that , if the owner of the building has not done the work , the council has done it and billed the owner . |
| 10 | Remains showing this design can be seen in a number of towns , especially where the city has since declined in importance and later building has not obscured the pattern . |
| 11 | He is chairman and former chief executive of Independent Television News and the news at ITN has not been good recently . |
| 12 | But agriculture has not stood still . |
| 13 | The grant has not improved in any real sense to today 's figure of one point seven win wrong one point seven five million and now it 's the government 's intent to reduce the grant by stages until nineteen seventy , nineteen ninety seven it will be removed completely . |
| 14 | I should add that in any event the Bank of England are in my judgment entitled to the presumption of regularity both as to reasonableness and as to the scope of their functions , and Mr. Philipson has not been able to point to any evidence of fact which can not be reconciled with them having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 15 | But its uptake has not been popularly received in Britain . |
| 16 | Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt . |
| 17 | The illustrations must do something that the text has not done or that the text can not do : ‘ You must never illustrate exactly what is written . |
| 18 | There are a number of examples of effective group and cooperative production organisations in rural Europe , but they are not well known , and are often isolated experiments whose replication has not been attempted or has failed . |
| 19 | which , like is capable of evoking , will thus be capable of eliciting in spite of the fact that the link has not been trained directly . |
| 20 | Research into classroom interaction has not focused directly on children 's explanations . |
| 21 | Comparable findings were obtained in an electrophysiological study by Hirshkowitz , Earle and Paley ( 1978 ) but a significant group-by-ear interaction has not always been found ( Gates and Bradshaw , 1977a ; Zattore , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | of British Rail 's freight business originates in the north-west , is not it strange that British Rail has not talked to the majority of its users already about times and tariffs for the channel tunnel ? |
| 23 | British Rail has not yet put an investment proposition to the Department for the west coast main line . |
| 24 | This leaves open the possibility of the inclusion of the PDPA in some format in a future settlement on Afghanistan , even though the principle of representation of the PDPA in an eventual settlement has not yet been accepted by Washington . |
| 25 | However , wherever possible , within this firm we aim to be in a position to decide whether to issue proceedings , if an acceptable offer of settlement has not been made , by the end of 12 months . |
| 26 | However , approval from the relevant authorities has not yet been gained . |
| 27 | Whilst the general power to cap the rates of all authorities has not yet been used , the switch in emphasis from concern with local government spending to local authority spending has nevertheless been marked . |
| 28 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 29 | As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up . |
| 30 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |