Example sentences of "[conj] not [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Servian centuriate organization — whether or not inspired by the Solonian model of the four classes — made Rome a timocratic city . |
| 2 | In the towns a rich and influential group of merchants , retailers , professional men and the like led their chapels in all the important decisions such as whether or not to move to a Unitarian position . |
| 3 | Some companies insist that journalists or other borrowers should sign a form to say that they will be responsible for any photographs borrowed and that they will pay for it in the event that a photograph is lost or not returned before a certain date . |
| 4 | Well , I do n't suppose this contract 's costing us twenty-one million , but it 's costing us several million , and I would hate to think that er , any of that is being wasted , or not spent in the best possible way , and I would therefore recommend , chair , that we refer the matter of the facilities management contract to the budget review sub-committee for consideration of the way it 's not being implemented . |
| 5 | Bidders missing the deadline for offers or not shortlisted for the second phase may not be readmitted . |
| 6 | Frequently , indeed , local languages are not examined or not counted in the final mark to determine selection . |
| 7 | The difficulty is in deciding whether or not to start with the public culture ( pro third world , bicycles , a minimum wage , higher taxes , more women comedians , legal justice for black and Irish people ) and tackling popular fears about Labour ; or whether to assume that public culture is sanctimonious and self-deceiving and Labour 's interest lies in an honest public culture . |
| 8 | The ‘ offset ’ policy extends the bubble concept so as to allow interfirm trading of emission permits among activities not located in the same plant or not owned by the same firm . |
| 9 | These surveys , although not published before the first major statement on the curriculum , must have influenced HMI thinking . |
| 10 | Although not located on a structural culmination , the well had a small show of methane at the top of the Lower Permian Sandstone beneath the Magnesian Limestone and Zechstein salt . |
| 11 | So much of the power of the ‘ male gaze ’ depends on the impulse towards self-gratification that not to draw on the erotic is to limit the effect of the image . |
| 12 | Now , in contrast , a teacher is more often than not faced with a complete ignorance of Christianity . |
| 13 | But it is a common and easily observed fact that measures of aggregate output in any economy tend to be positively serially correlated ; that is , a higher than average value for aggregate output in any period is more often than not followed by a higher than average value next period and , similarly , a low value in any period is more likely to be followed by another low one than by a high one . |
| 14 | When she did breathe ‘ cancer ’ , in her muffled contralto , the implications were of something exceedingly unfortunate with a strong hint of divine retribution , more often than not accompanied by a sharp , righteous , ‘ be sure your sins will find you out . ’ |
| 15 | Also , the needles on the needlebed ( plus their latches ) must be in good condition with the sinker posts in an upright position and not bent at a drunken angle ! |
| 16 | He should believe in her character , and not object to a past action she could not avoid . |
| 17 | Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models . |
| 18 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 19 | In some of these shops I observed one or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with the latter , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … struck with this novelty , I enquired , " whether the ladies of this locality shod horses ? " but was answered , with a smile , " they are nailers " . |
| 20 | ( b ) A blank copy of the builder 's standard descriptions of work ( i.e. omnibus and not based on the Standard Method of Measurement ) is forwarded to the sub-contractors for pricing . |
| 21 | The returns for Lothingland and Mutford hundreds , Suffolk , permit a rare glimpse of the mechanics by which many assessments were revalued , under the heading ‘ The namys of those personys forgotyn and not charged at the last subsidie which are to be charged now ’ . |
| 22 | The design and development of many of these products was undertaken by large groups of workers and not limited to a small technocratic elite . |
| 23 | Examples in Northern Tyneside include ship-building and -repair as part of the maritime industrial structure , and those local plants which are independent and not tied to a particular customer . |
| 24 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 25 | The local labour movement was split between those who wanted to intervene politically to support members of the skilled manual working class and those who wanted to act on financial grounds and not intervene in a declining enterprise . |
| 26 | Male and female roles were separate and complementary , and based on the primitive , that the male was the stronger and not exposed to the constant and deathly risks of the childbed . |
| 27 | The corporation hopes miners will take the redundancy and not go through the lengthy procedure . |
| 28 | Second , most people who are in work are keeping their heads down and not looking for a new job , so there is less competition from those in work . |
| 29 | Thus , the increased incidence of pancreatitis discharges may be a result of an increased number of recurrent episodes of pancreatitis , and not caused by an increased number of individual patients . |
| 30 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |