Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not acknowledged that more people are now moving out of unemployment than a year ago . |
| 2 | But this has not meant that those industries have withdrawn their support for museums here . |
| 3 | It has not responded and further action may be required . |
| 4 | There has not occurred that stark polarization and revolutionary confrontation of the two principal classes — bourgeoisie and proletariat — that Marx , at least in some parts of his analysis , seemed to anticipate . |
| 5 | Finance Act 1981 ( now TA 1988 , s740 ) has not changed that fundamental point although charges can arise in respect of payments out from the trust to beneficiaries . |
| 6 | Apart from thyroid cancer it has not seemed that any illnesses could be detected and so the matter has not been pursued . |
| 7 | She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again . |
| 8 | Just to show he has n't lost that wicked sense of humour , he keeps a chicken 's head mask on the passenger seat of his car which he slips on whenever he is recognised . |
| 9 | I would be surprised if there 's a major opera house in Europe now which has n't got and English singer . |
| 10 | She made coq au vin on his birthday , painstakingly following a recipe ( a thing she 'd not done since basic cookery lessons at school ) and he was so pleased he bought her a Cordon Bleu cookbook . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , I 've promised not to go until this practice is flourishing , and I 'm sticking to that . ’ |
| 12 | The prosecution decided not to proceed because medical experts could not be certain what caused Mrs Fort 's death . |
| 13 | For the moment , he did not care if some vehicle ran him over . |
| 14 | When the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers was expressed in relation to the size of the total labour force in the establishment , it did not appear that larger establishments were more likely to make use of temporary workers than smaller ones [ see Table 3.4 ] . |
| 15 | Jack did not realise that vertical lines are always straight up and down even when you are standing on a hillside . |
| 16 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 17 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |
| 18 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 19 | ( Just as , in the case of my own work , I did not anticipate that some teachers would begin every lesson with ‘ What do you want to do a play about ? ’ . |
| 20 | Ivica Racan , a ( Croatian ) member of the party presidium , said that this meant affirming the freedom of a citizen 's political association , keeping self-management strategic to socialist development , but did not mean that political pluralism " should be reduced simply to the question of a multiparty system , because this is only one of the possible forms of political pluralism " . |
| 21 | It should be noted that , while the budgets and weight of food items were calculated per prisoner , this did not mean that each inmate was given an individually weighed portion : the uncooked food was simply weighed in bulk on leaving the stores for the kitchen . |
| 22 | Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it . |
| 23 | Unacceptable standards of behaviour and attainment at Tyndale did not mean that all schools following an enquiry or discovery approach to learning were similarly failing . |
| 24 | However , this did not mean that negative covenants are always irremediable covenants . |
| 25 | This did not mean that this factory produced every single component used in the computers . |
| 26 | This point was made even clearer in a later case involving the Chief Justice , in which he stated that a ‘ breach of the Act or the Code did not mean that any statement made by a defendant after such breach would necessarily by ruled out . |
| 27 | Being together in this way did not mean that either party treated the other with excessive informality but it did mean that teachers knew pupils well . |
| 28 | The habituated OR to the light did not return when this stimulus was presented in the other context ( context B in the figure ) , that is , habituation transferred across contexts . |
| 29 | Although Jarman is an avid painter ( he exhibited at the ICA in 1984 ) , he did not feel that that medium could extend beyond ‘ one person 's thing ’ . |
| 30 | He did not mention that one definition of a composer 's talent is that he can write music that compels an audience 's attention . |