Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson has not started in the last six games and his dramatic goal will not change Graham 's thinking overnight . |
| 2 | Falconer , who made an impressive start to his Ayresome Park career , has not figured in the first team since a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth . |
| 3 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 4 | William realised he would have to handle the unloading alone if the van did not arrive in the next few minutes . |
| 5 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 6 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 7 | The pace did not slacken in the fifth . |
| 8 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |
| 9 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The opportunity that they now have is to become independent production companies , an opportunity that they did not have in the last round of licence decisions . |
| 11 | If a prisoner did not apply in the next term after execution to receive the benefit of the Act , he lost it . |
| 12 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 13 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 14 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 15 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 16 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 17 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 18 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 19 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 20 | This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper ; and , if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two , his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance . |
| 21 | This technique is one of the prominent syntactico-semantic features of the first part of the novel , and it does not disappear in the second and third sections . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) associated himself with the sentence : ’ I 'll be surprised if budget holding does not collapse in the first year . ’ |
| 23 | On this he comments : " Since lābō ( or its equivalent in meaning ) does not reappear in the second colon , the longer expression is used instead of simply one word ( e.g. ) " . |
| 24 | Those lacking this knowledge tended not to succeed in the first graduation step and usually were to be seen a year or so later in either group D or E. |