Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I arrive at length at the present appeal , one striking feature of which is that , whilst not formally abandoning them , counsel for the applicant has not pressed with any vigour either of the grounds upon which the Divisional Court decided in his favour , namely that the Director was entitled to ask questions after charge but only after administering a fresh caution , and that the fact of such a caution would be a reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer , within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 .
2 Despite good performances from both sectors , this share has not increased from last year which reflects some positive performances from other key sectors .
3 These complications often coexisted and with the exception of pelvic sepsis , their incidence has not fallen with increased experience with the operation .
4 It is understood Nelson has not communicated with any member of his family since his transfer to England in December .
5 However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services .
6 One of the most notable developments in the Soviet Union , contrary to the confident expectations of Soviet and Western Marxists as well as modernisation theorists , is that rapid socio-economic development in the USSR has not led to any decrease in ethnic attachment among the minority nationalities .
7 If it has not completed within this time , the transfer run will stop shortly after the transfer duration has expired .
8 ‘ He has not asked for any help from us .
9 For instance , who amongst us has not said at one time or another :
10 Although warranties may be implied by statute , not only may they be inadequate , but the vendor will want the purchaser to acknowledge it has not relied on any warranty , representation or undertaking unless expressly set out in the sale agreement .
11 This implies that the vendor is representing itself as an insurer whereas the real claim is the full value of the damages suffered by the breach of contract ; ( d ) ensuring the purchaser acknowledges it has not relied on any representation other than those incorporated in the sale agreement and that it shall not have any right to rescind the sale agreement .
12 Although the name Shaw has not arisen before this date , from here onwards it was never to be far from the Lakeland milling scene .
13 Clarke has not played in that position for the last couple of years , but performed excellently .
14 ‘ The state ’ , says Engels , ‘ … has not existed from all eternity .
15 This rather belated official intervention has not met with much success .
16 The model suggested has not met with widespread acceptance .
17 PLCND , chaired by Bob Cryer , Labour candidate for Bradford South and vice-chairman of Labour 's backbench defence committee , has not met since last year .
18 Those readers who like the gossip found in ‘ Heard on my Rounds ’ will have noticed that the column has not appeared in this issue .
19 The Scottish Office , for example , has not moved to higher building regulation standards .
20 According to corporate sales manager Neville Street , AST has not suffered in any way as a result of the personal computer price war .
21 It certainly seems that the change in personalities at the top of the Soviet hierarchy has not resulted in any easing of the repressive policy against dissidents .
22 The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications .
23 The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications .
24 The second criticism is that though public expenditure and public employment have been reduced during the last five years , this has not resulted in any upsurge of employment in the marketed sector .
25 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 .
26 That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace .
27 That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace .
28 The Hon. Lady 's old trick of quoting one item as an example for all the valleys has not come off this time .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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