Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that ‘ post ’ will need progressive reinterpretation to include telex , facsimile transmission and other forms of ‘ electronic mail ’ but international conventions appear not to have explored these possibilities thus far . |
| 2 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 3 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 4 | But Washington has not admitted using new types of anti-personnel weapons , although evidence indicates that it did . |
| 5 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 6 | So far it has not managed to find suitable grounds big enough to take four lawns which would make it eligible to become a competition centre . |
| 7 | Thank God we have n't been bombed , and Theresa has n't had to put that gas mask on the baby . ’ |
| 8 | I think I am the only one who has n't had to pay any fines for not missing a tournament . |
| 9 | There 's no one who has n't had to confront this problem . ’ |
| 10 | Apart from power concerns , consistency seems also to be an issue here , with designers preferring not to have to construct composite 5V and 3V boards . |
| 11 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 12 | yeah doing , doing the maths you see I do n't have to do another science next year |
| 13 | I should have preferred not to have to raise this matter in an Adjournment debate . |
| 14 | On Oct. 25 Prime Minister Paias Wingti confirmed the advance , but claimed not to have had prior knowledge of it . |
| 15 | In this case the applicant challenged a tax amnesty granted by the Revenue to casual workers in Fleet Street : the Revenue had agreed not to seek to recover unpaid tax provided the workers ceased their tax-evading tactics in the future . |
| 16 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 17 | Suleyman 's own medreses , built round his mosque in Istanbul and completed by 966/1559 , were to form the top rungs in the fully elaborated hierarchy of medreses , though they seem not to have achieved exclusive claim to this pre-eminence immediately . |
| 18 | Fuchs , however , held ultimate responsibility for Mr Lees 's actions and seems not to have made adequate attempts to investigate problems within his own museum as they developed . |
| 19 | ‘ If Lineker had stayed , Tottenham would have not have received any fee for him . ’ |
| 20 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 21 | Coward appears not to have liked poor Miss Langford because he also said after seeing her in Gypsy : ‘ Two things should be cut — the second act and that child 's throat . ’ |
| 22 | Matriarchal planter culture appears not to have overcome this difficulty of development completely . |
| 23 | Also if you 're in rented accommodation you 're claiming housing benefit , you 'll probably have n't got to pay any rent , specially if it 's Council there 's relief , relief from paying |
| 24 | You claim not to have found any lighter , is that it ? ’ |
| 25 | Naturally , players and directors did not want to broadcast systematic evasion of FA rules . |
| 26 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 27 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 28 | Firstly , said the Government , it did not want to stifle all criticism of the way its policies were carried out . |
| 29 | Despite his well known views on EC federalism , de Gaulle 's first concern was with Germany , although , unlike his successors , he did not want to employ supranational structures to contain Germany . |
| 30 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |