Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life-cycle poverty was a condition not confined only to the old . |
| 2 | The spokeswoman for the mission said : ’ Recognition not tied in to the negotiating process is not a sensible thing right now . ’ |
| 3 | For another , has the Scottish Tourist Board not cottoned on to the fact that this Sunday sailings issue is good copy . |
| 4 | Those Germans not knocked out by the week-long bombardment were given time to reach their gun positions , and they poured an unremitting enfilade of lead at the doomed British soldiers . |
| 5 | Another type of work which is disliked is emotionally demanding work , a category not recognized elsewhere in the literature on the police . |
| 6 | On 9 November a Moscow circular from Secretary V. Molotov himself forbade somewhat belatedly the imposition of any local taxes not laid down in the list issued by VTsIK . |
| 7 | Furthermore , OPEC would almost certainly have been unable to sustain massively higher prices in the context of the subsequent crash had US policy towards oil imports not changed dramatically in the seventies . |
| 8 | Those responsibilities not taken over by the newly privatised gas , petroleum and electricity industries are expected to be handed over to existing departments such as Trade and Industry and Environment . |
| 9 | A man … ( most of the examples in mathematics textbooks refer to men : women are invisible — a point not picked up in the Cockcroft Report which devotes a whole chapter to why girls perform less well in mathematics than boys do ) … earns £74.50 for a 48 hour week . |
| 10 | Those regulations not carried out under the auspices of the SIB include insider dealing , takeovers and mergers , and the listing of new issues . |
| 11 | DIVERS exploring the wreck of the Titanic brought up china plates with a pattern not found before aboard the ill-fated ship , it was announced yesterday . |
| 12 | Employing the familiar juxtaposition of ‘ the remarkably law-abiding character of twentieth century English life ’ and ‘ the law-abiding England of pre-1940 ’ as against what he repeatedly identified as ‘ new ’ — ‘ the new juvenile crime ’ , ‘ the new rebels ’ , ‘ the new generation of indifferent parents ’ , ‘ a new type of violence ’ , ‘ the new state of insecurity ’ — Fyvel thus considered that there was ‘ something in the way of life , in the break-up of traditional authority , in the values of the news in the headlines , which encouraged widespread youthful cynicism in general and rather violent delinquency in particular ’ and that this was ‘ a by-product of a new economic revolution which has put spending money on a scale not known before into the pockets of working-class boys and girls ’ . |
| 13 | We can not test independently the relevance of the high proportion of children not born locally in the isolated area that is west Thurso since no area within the rural high oil category is known to approach its high level . |
| 14 | He says they have to photograph issues not connected directly with the rally , perhaps the environment or wildlife . |
| 15 | A good deal of thought has gone into devising various practical steps to check on the accuracy of analysis not carried out under the data user 's immediate control . |
| 16 | He had pressed on with the work , permitting no more interruption than common courtesy required , and had joined in the prayer of thanksgiving with a truly heartfelt gratitude not occasioned only by the woman 's departure . |
| 17 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 18 | The securities firm acts as an underwriter for a number of various companies ( an underwriter buys all residue shares not taken up in the share issue they have promoted ) . |
| 19 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
| 20 | On the intervening rift floor are hot springs representing deeply circulated groundwaters not involved significantly with the high enthalpy systems of the volcanoes . |