Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These complications often coexisted and with the exception of pelvic sepsis , their incidence has not fallen with increased experience with the operation .
2 However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services .
3 The model suggested has not met with widespread acceptance .
4 Your Committee , far from hibernating , has not ceased from mental strife , nor has its sword slept in its hand , if we have not yet built Jerusalem , we have at least laid siege to the walls of Jericho in the shape of Crestacare Management .
5 But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections .
6 Despite having coached Northerns so well in tandem with Williams in the late Eighties , Eugene Van Wyk was refused and Ian Kirkpatrick , who has not coached at provincial level for at least a decade , has been named .
7 The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] .
8 It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research .
9 Although he has always given strong leadership , Jan Hoet has not acted by divine right but more like a president , encouraging an on-going debate between the exhibition 's four curators .
10 In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield .
11 On the final day of the meeting , progress was overshadowed by the UK 's refusal to agree not to dispose of radioactive waste under the seabed .
12 The most popular television crime series , such as The Sweeney , Minder , The Professionals , Juliet Bravo , Hill Street Blues , tend not to deal with corporate crime and the business criminal .
13 The session will be timed not to coincide with noisy exercise classes to music .
14 After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible .
15 She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time .
16 And even that did not make for encouraging listening .
17 Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet .
18 Otherwise dates did not appear on western coinage until the thirteenth century .
19 Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) .
20 The cat did not return until late afternoon .
21 Marryat was not avoiding actuality : his authentic plots did not extend to emotional exploration .
22 However , as has been reported in International Crossroads , they have been awarded the 1993 World Cup Sevens , a decision which did not meet with general approval , and as there is a rebuilding programme at Murrayfield only 38,000 fans will be able to watch the tournament on each day .
23 These stocks were attractive to banks and discount houses but did not meet with strong demand elsewhere and no more were issued subsequently .
24 The partial compensation found in the fertility of the black and brown immigrants of the Commonwealth countries who had sent over 3 million people into Britain since 1962 did not meet with universal enthusiasm , as the evidence from the Race Relations Board frequently suggested .
25 Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work .
26 They came to office unsullied by royal service or political intrigue , and with the political principles and ideas of the schools fresh in their minds , but Stratford had won office by his service to the crown ; he was one of those who managed the early wool loans and spent the opening months of the French war recruiting allies and spies on the continent ; he may have resisted and condemned the malpractices of tax collectors , but he did not protest against royal taxation , burdensome as it was , before these crisis years .
27 Bentley 's group theory postulated that the study of politics was the study of the conflict between groups , although his work did not refer to organised interest groups only but to groups with shared views .
28 He was arrested in 1661 and 1662 but did not engage in seditious activity until 1663 , when he became involved in the Farnley Wood or Yorkshire plot .
29 Miranda , while not vain , did not suffer from false modesty .
30 In a previous study , fundectomy did not result in pancreatic hypertrophy .
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