Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenant duly paid his rent and did not commit any breach of covenant . |
| 2 | I replied to Ms Chevannes through the same newspaper thus : ‘ Generally , black kids do not demonstrate interest in school work and do not sink much enthusiasm into their efforts . |
| 3 | The lobster has a tiny brain like our city council and does not feel any pain . ’ |
| 4 | The cats in question have never lived near the new home and do not have any knowledge of the new locality . |
| 5 | Cultivated blackberries are not far removed from their wild parents and do not need much fussy soil preparation . |
| 6 | In recent years the situation has become confused , because there are now exterior wood stains available , which differ from a true dye or stain , as they leave a coloured film on the surface of the wood and do not require another finish to be applied over them . |
| 7 | In contrast , the South Australian ‘ notoriety for profit ’ provisions do not depend upon the existence of a contract and do not provide any mechanism whereby the benefits can be re-directed to the victim of the offender 's crime . |
| 8 | The Jivaro depend largely on agriculture and do not eat many wild plants , though they hunt a lot . |
| 9 | But although there are hundreds of freshwater lochs in Shetland , the majority are on the acidic peatlands and do not produce enough underwater vegetation to satisfy the needs of big grazing birds like swans . |
| 10 | Choueka [ 1988 ] has designed an algorithm for locating collocational expressions in corpora that does not include any morphological or syntactic component and does not require any dictionary lookup . |
| 11 | A defence is only as good as its defenders and do not forget that good players do not turn out in non-League football for beer money . |
| 12 | PERMITTING — means an express or implied permission and does not involve any order to take a vehicle on the roads . |
| 13 | Bègles is a super team and does not need such nonsense . ’ |
| 14 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On the spine , these bindings are positioned at the bottom of the sawcuts and do not have any protrusions ; but , on the cross-spars , an extra triangular form extension ( it is n't critical though appointed shape is best ) for the bow tensioner has to be made . |
| 18 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 19 | I have continued to live there as my sole residence and do not have any other home or accommodation . |
| 20 | Cargill says it has not patented any genes from indigenous Indian plants and has not exported any seeds from India . |
| 21 | Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet . |
| 22 | Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder . |
| 23 | " This action , " he said , " does not mean that Japan is assuming a military role in the international community and does not represent any change in Japan 's basic defence policy . " |
| 24 | The historical texts were confined to enumerating the kings who lived in those troubled years and do not give any indication that something important was occurring at that time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This was normal with jobs in domestic service and does not imply any disagreement with Jennens , though presumably there was a period when she saw little of her old employer . |
| 27 | They said goodbye to each other and promised not to ignore each other the next time they met . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But despite the problems of trying to ensure the food goes to the right people and does not cause any injury , Mr Major believes that using parachute air drops to the most dangerous areas would have value . |
| 30 | The pendant or hanging variety give good overall light but tend to flatten shadows and do not provide enough light by which to read or work comfortably . |