Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] that [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2 | But this has not meant that those industries have withdrawn their support for museums here .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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Apart from thyroid cancer it has not seemed that any illnesses could be detected and so the matter has not been pursued . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Would he have listened to her then , if she had not flung that furious retort at him before they were confronted by Ralf ? |
8 | Bartlett 's recall may be elusive , while the popular Roland Lefebvre is left pondering sadly on what might have been if he had not suffered that pre-season arm injury in a misplaced prank involving Sussex 's Brad Donelan . |
9 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
10 | ‘ I came , I saw , I was conquered , to mistranslate the mighty Caesar , ’ Hope went on , puffing a little uphill — curious that his heavy exercises did not make country walking more comfortable — and hoping that Mr Crump had not heard that hackneyed quip too often — ‘ and who could resist the lake , the hills , the trees , the flowers , the birds . ’ |
11 | I had not realised that other sites had been considered , including Merthyr . |
12 | And in the recent article he had read on the subject , even the sergeant in charge of the course had not believed that any woman would take his one piece of infallible advice . |
13 | In my innocence I had not imagined that such Machiavellian schemes could be devised , let alone carried out . |
14 | Yes , but Omi had n't , Erika thought , she had not forgotten that handsome officer who had courted her all those inconceivable years ago . |
15 | If only my father had not chosen that very moment to ask Anne to dance , then what ? |
16 | The group who face the most difficulty getting adequately trained are women doctors , and they made their voices heard at the conference despite the organisers admitting with startling candour that they had not anticipated that this issue would arise . |
17 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
18 | It would be easy enough to envy him if she had n't seen that terrible mark on his shoulder — — he 'd taught her to read those letters . |
19 | ‘ If you had n't bumped that sodding Angel there 'd have been another murder this afternoon , ’ said Perdita sulkily . |
20 | F'r instance , he had n't attacked that smooth-faced kid in the other big room , the kid whose mask he once snatched , the kid who lasered Biff 's hand , the kid whose cronies dragged Crackpot away to a fiery torment . |
21 | ‘ If you had n't told that stupid story to Sybil and upset her , I would n't have done it to you . |
22 | While I have not pretended that pre-Chernobyl data are extensive , there is compelling evidence about soil and grass contamination in the Cumbrian uplands before and after Chernobyl , based on research and monitoring by the Atomic Energy Authority , the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , and BNFL . |
23 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
24 | They would move to buy at low prices from those sellers who have not discovered that some buyers are paying high prices . |
25 | I have n't heard that old bastard 's name mentioned in years . ’ |