Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 2 | The tenant duly paid his rent and did not commit any breach of covenant . |
| 3 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 4 | Chelmsford coroner Malcolm Weir was told American police were still investigating the crime but had not made any arrests . |
| 5 | He gathered his own particular circle of close advisers around him and was prone to discount views that did not reflect those prevailing in his own circle . |
| 6 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 7 | The company owned and hired out barges but did not employ any of the union men , but their action meant that barges were not returned and so the company 's business came to a standstill . |
| 8 | Of the non-participating countries ( i ) the Greek government announced on July 12 , 1990 , its intention to do so in 1993 if government fiscal measures were successfully implemented ; ( ii ) the Prime Minister of Portugal , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , was known to favour early participation in the ERM although there was division within the government as to the exact timing ; and ( iii ) the United Kingdom government had declared its intention to join the ERM but had not given any commitment as to when . |
| 9 | The sideboard knocked the wall as he swung round and the noise groaned in the room that had not known such life since the night Francis Sutherland , drunk in front of weekend guests , told his wife , self-assured and aloof on the distant coast of the table , that she was a frigid bitch who needed seeing to and he did n't care who did it . |
| 10 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 11 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 12 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 13 | Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder . |
| 14 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |
| 15 | 17 , in which wives became contractually bound in support of their husband 's debts but did not provide any security over their property , stand a little aloof from the principles I have been discussing . |
| 16 | Those businesses that did not meet this exacting standard would , vowed Mr Welch , be ‘ fixed , closed or sold ’ . |
| 17 | Earlier monarchs had spent very little on such things and had not done much about the world outside Europe or about the development of their colonies . |
| 18 | They said goodbye to each other and promised not to ignore each other the next time they met . |
| 19 | But when Ronald Reagan came to Washington a year later , another government department , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , looked at the same evidence and decided not to limit most other , potentially higher human exposures to the chemical . |
| 20 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 21 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 22 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 23 | He had a gilt-edged opportunity to beat Stephen Hendry , so far the man of the season with four first prizes , in the Stormseal UK Open at Preston , but missed a simple pink when leading 22-0 in the deciding frame and did not have another shot . |
| 24 | He had a gilt-edged opportunity to beat Stephen Hendry , so far the man of the season with four first prizes , in the Stormseal UK Open at Preston , but missed a simple pink when leading 22-0 in the deciding frame and did not have another shot . |
| 25 | Eileen 's mother was a strong healthy woman and had not suffered any particular ill-effects at the birth of her youngest daughter . |
| 26 | Also in 1818 Coffey , by then acting inspector-general of excise , published his Observations on Chichester 's pamphlet , in which he restated the official policy but did not produce any very convincing arguments or evidence in its justification . |
| 27 | There were comparable difficulties elsewhere , particularly in Georgia and Uzbekistan , and indeed there were few parts of Soviet territory that did not experience some form of nationalist self-consciousness combined with pressure for a greater degree of cultural and economic autonomy . |
| 28 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 29 | And the birth of the Universe , if some current theories are to be believed , depended on particles that did not have any physical existence at all . |
| 30 | " He had no friends and did not deserve any , A.J.P. Taylor once wrote . |