Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the last election , he and Douglas Hurd , then the Home Secretary , drew up a list of the jobs they would seek not to do after the election . |
| 2 | The one redress any of the members of this group have is to try not to appear on the poll tax register . |
| 3 | The person chosen puts his face in the frame as if he is a picture and then he has to try not to laugh as the rest tell their best jokes and make the funniest expressions . |
| 4 | This obscurity has not detracted from the approach 's popularity , and many widely held notions about psychology have originated in the cinema , in magazines or novels , based on interpretations of psychoanalytic thought . |
| 5 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 6 | Its exact nature has not emerged to the satisfaction of all readers . |
| 7 | One factor which has not emerged during the election is fatigue . |
| 8 | The Official Receiver has not heard from the family and has no idea where they are , but assumes they are on the road . |
| 9 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market . |
| 10 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 11 | Yet this interventionism has not led to the creation of anything approaching an Executive Office . |
| 12 | Similarly , a recent reduction in the West German prison population has not led to an increase in major crime or made the streets less safe ( Feest , 1999 ) . |
| 13 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 14 | In the meantime , ‘ community policing has not developed into a partnership between police and public in the fight against crime . |
| 15 | It is amazing that the hon. Gentleman , who professes knowledge of social security matters , has not alluded to the fact that we restructured the national insurance scheme . |
| 16 | He who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God . |
| 17 | If Christ has not risen from the grave of our lives , from our doubts , fears , from our personal deaths , then all the so-called evidences of the resurrection are of no consequence except as props . |
| 18 | Clearly our valuable training input to the local area has not featured as a priority on the local Labour Party agenda . |
| 19 | Roos 's donation of ‘ La Celestine ’ to the French State and the undertaking he received afterwards from Culture Minister Jack Lang that another rare Picasso he owned , ‘ Les Noces de Pierrette ’ , would be allowed to leave the country , thus greatly increasing its value , is an aspect of the Celestine affair which has not featured in the court case . |
| 20 | The need has not diminished following the government 's whistle-blowers ' charter , the inadequacies of which have been exposed by Dr Helen Zeitlin , vice-president of the NHS Support Federation ( Guardian letters , October 22 ) . |
| 21 | At the time of writing , the UK Parliament has not progressed beyond a draft Bill . |
| 22 | Their subconscious mind , however , has not progressed beyond the guilt stage and they continue to see themselves in their inner mind as bad people who deserve nothing better than to be victims . |
| 23 | Certainly undertakings in the contract that the buyer has not relied upon the seller 's skill and judgment will not be conclusive , especially in consumer sales where s6 of UCTA 1977 precludes contracting out of the implied condition of fitness . |
| 24 | I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy at my local cinema , The Grand , in a remote , windswept North-east village during the war years and my passion for Snow White , Grumpy , Happy and Mickey has not dimmed with the passage of time . |
| 25 | Approval listings will only be produced in your current default directory if the LIFESPAN manager has NOT turned off the production of approval listings . |
| 26 | In Darwin 's version pangenesis could not be squared with these cytological generalizations ; for , if each of the two masses of gemmules coming together at fertilization is taken to be one cell , then it has not arisen in the division of one cell in that parent ; while , if each is taken to be a myriad of cells , then far too many are coming together at fertilization . |
| 27 | Nobody who has not lived in a dungeon could understand how absolute the silence down here is . |
| 28 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 29 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 30 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |