Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concepts concerning relationships between units are probably acquired in school , and most pupils appear not to deal with Imperial units to any great extent in the mathematics classroom . |
| 2 | The level of giving has not increased in real terms at all significantly in the late 1980s despite attempts to increase its attractiveness through various tax reliefs . |
| 3 | Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears . |
| 4 | These complications often coexisted and with the exception of pelvic sepsis , their incidence has not fallen with increased experience with the operation . |
| 5 | However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services . |
| 6 | Even with this limitation , however , and even given the fact that the Court in this case says by way of principle little that it has not said in previous cases , one should not underestimate the impact of this new illustration of the Court 's conception of the reach of the Directive in terms of the nature of the activities it covers . |
| 7 | The model suggested has not met with widespread acceptance . |
| 8 | Your Committee , far from hibernating , has not ceased from mental strife , nor has its sword slept in its hand , if we have not yet built Jerusalem , we have at least laid siege to the walls of Jericho in the shape of Crestacare Management . |
| 9 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 10 | An economic Policy is what the Government has not had since Black Wednesday , although the Autumn Statement on Thursday will hopefully change that . |
| 11 | Despite having coached Northerns so well in tandem with Williams in the late Eighties , Eugene Van Wyk was refused and Ian Kirkpatrick , who has not coached at provincial level for at least a decade , has been named . |
| 12 | The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 13 | But the Bank recently published a paper called : ‘ Why structural adjustment has not succeeded in Sub-Saharan Africa ’ . |
| 14 | It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research . |
| 15 | Although he has always given strong leadership , Jan Hoet has not acted by divine right but more like a president , encouraging an on-going debate between the exhibition 's four curators . |
| 16 | On the final day of the meeting , progress was overshadowed by the UK 's refusal to agree not to dispose of radioactive waste under the seabed . |
| 17 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 18 | The most popular television crime series , such as The Sweeney , Minder , The Professionals , Juliet Bravo , Hill Street Blues , tend not to deal with corporate crime and the business criminal . |
| 19 | In some ways , in fact , it 's a bit less worthwhile , in that you tend not to think about social matters , people 's characters and things like that . |
| 20 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 21 | Legal representatives for Nelson refused to comment on the visit from the Stevens team or to indicate whether Nelson has decided not to proceed with legal actions against both the Prison Service and the BBC over the use of extracts from his ‘ jail journal ’ in television programmes without his permission . |
| 22 | Secret organisations in competition with other secret organisations require time to grow and do not emerge with countrywide capabilities . |
| 23 | He has promised not to get into political arguments with Dad . |
| 24 | She was told not to look at other boys because they 'd think she was fat and ugly . |
| 25 | According to the Independent on Sunday of Aug. 25 , the delay in taking this decision was due to the efforts of Gen. Varennikov , who had offered not to interfere in Ukrainian affairs if Ukraine accepted SCSE government . |
| 26 | The session will be timed not to coincide with noisy exercise classes to music . |
| 27 | After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible . |
| 28 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 29 | Any male who chose not to mate with certain kinds of females would mate less than his non-discriminatory competitors . |
| 30 | According to Edward Altman , a finance professor at New York University , there are also indirect costs : some customers choose not to deal with vulnerable firms , and suppliers demand better terms . |