Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword , but all by the extremity of famine , which they themselves had wrought . |
| 2 | However , two officers found not guilty by the military tribunal were given sentences of two and three years . |
| 3 | A person found not guilty under s.20 may be convicted under s.47 : Wilson , approved by the House of Lords in Savage . |
| 4 | A second defendent , Anthony Gallagher found NOT guilty of the same charge and was fined three hundred pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 5 | A solicitor has claimed that three men found not guilty of the manslaughter of twin girls should never have been put on trial . |
| 6 | A solicitor has claimed that three men found not guilty of the manslaughter of twin girls should never have been put on trial . |
| 7 | ‘ Benefit of doubt ’ : A man who denied illegally overtaking on the A66 trans-Pennine route was yesterday given the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ by Barnard Castle magistrates and found not guilty of the charge . |
| 8 | Digging through the literary evidence the biblical detectives found not one set of fingerprints but at least four . |
| 9 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 10 | He slipped into Bulgarian and became not absurd . |
| 11 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 12 | I think , you know , it it it 's er something we made not all that |
| 13 | Both the military and the family metaphors of management celebrate cooperation between people and the possibilities of conflict are denied , or made not legitimate . |
| 14 | The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’ |
| 15 | Leith wasted not another second . |
| 16 | Derek had an aunt who lived not far from his new Scottish home . |
| 17 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 18 | My cousins lived not far from us , on the same stretch of road , and we often saw them as we were all of similar age . |
| 19 | She lived not far from where I think Lowell 's cottage is — somewhere in that area . |
| 20 | She said it because Rory was in her mind , and he had told her he lived not many miles from Belleeks , at a little crossroads in the lower hills . |
| 21 | In the Transcaucasus a similar mixture of the threat of external intervention and ‘ Great Russian chauvinism ’ produced not dissimilar effects . |
| 22 | Manfred Stolpe , chairman of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church Consistory , admitted not all their dreams had come true but it was ‘ a start to the process of dialogue ’ . |
| 23 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 24 | Heber 's study , the Post said , ‘ revealed not that mental deficiencies are passed on genetically , but that mentally retarded mothers tend to create an environment that is less conducive to mental development than that created by slum neighbours of normal intelligence , ’ The New York Times told its readers : ‘ The Milwaukee Project , an experiment in intensive preschool education for ( potentially retarded ) children , has proved that they can be raised more than 30 test points higher than other children from the same environment and with the same type of mother . ’ |
| 25 | At the top of the scale , landlords and big yeomen farmers owned not much less than one-third of the wealth of Norfolk and Sussex . |
| 26 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |
| 27 | Although the principle seemed not unfair , the practicalities of introducing such a system proved to be complex , not least because for historic reasons unit costs vary very considerably between one institution and another . |
| 28 | And for once the finale — everyone coming together to sing Dylan 's Chimes of Freedom — seemed not corny but exactly right . |
| 29 | By 1962 , in fact , it seemed not just that accommodation was possible , but that EFTA might well become a footnote in history . |
| 30 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |