Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period . |
2 | Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules . |
3 | A spokesman for the Housing Executive said : ‘ While building costs have increased the tender price has not increased at the same rate . |
4 | Monika , 27 , has not heard from the Bolton-born priest since the birth . |
5 | The judge has not asked for the 37year-old Marquess , heir to Blenheim Palace , to attend . |
6 | Kendall can not rely on the likes of Barry Horne , who has not scored since the first day of the season , and youngster Billy Kenny to ease the burden on his goal-shy strikers . |
7 | Hirst , who scored in his second appearance on the 1991 tour of Australasia , has not played for the senior side since that Wembley game . |
8 | Because the RAWP formula is only used to determine shares of the nationally allocated budget for the NHS , it has not suffered from the same instability of allocations for individual Regional Health Authorities that has occurred for Local Authorities . |
9 | There is scarcely a useful middleweight in the world whom he has not beaten with the one exception of the world champion , Fabien Canu of France . |
10 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
11 | When the number of members on the committee is small , it may be difficult to abide by the proviso that the amendment must be seconded by someone who has not spoken on the original motion , and in that case common sense prevails . |
12 | The company has not traded during the above financial year , and accordingly no profit and loss account has been prepared for the year . |
13 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
14 | Merson has not started in the last six games and his dramatic goal will not change Graham 's thinking overnight . |
15 | ‘ This makes the church sensitive to the needs of those areas and that section of the population which has not benefited from the last 10 years of Conservative government , ’ he says , claiming that there is ‘ no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society ’ . |
16 | If Vanguard has not deviated from the previous ideology of the National Front in identifying Jews as a powerful enemy , it has also not departed significantly from the conspiracy traditions . |
17 | ‘ Industry has not responded to the new opportunities provided by the devaluation of sterling . |
18 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
19 | As a result , most experiments end after six to eight hours , when the breath H 2 concentration has not returned to the fasting value . |
20 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
21 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
22 | Falconer , who made an impressive start to his Ayresome Park career , has not figured in the first team since a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth . |
23 | In the 23 years that that council has been in existence , it has not complied with the 1968 Act . |
24 | But , of course , others insist that it could never be humane in practice because the essence of the cruelty is not only in causing a painful and prolonged death but , rather , in the harrowing chase of the animal , and moreover , of an animal which has not evolved with the typical biological characteristics of a prey species . |
25 | Man 's basic need has not changed over the five centuries that this book covers . |
26 | The litany of complaints , in particular the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government , has not changed over the past quarter century ; yet much has been done , both by foreign and Italian committees . |
27 | When you realise that 90 are now considered a reasonable number , it is clear that at least one thing has not changed for the better . |
28 | One thing that has not changed with the passing millennia , however , is the rage of the man whose work is forged . |
29 | However , Mr Major insisted : ‘ Our economic objective has not changed in the slightest . |
30 | You 'll promise not to go to the next race , on Monday , wo n't you ? ’ |