Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected .
2 If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so .
3 ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’
4 I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth .
5 Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town .
6 ‘ My son has n't called me an asshole yet , ’ said Jim .
7 then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and
8 And then I , I was at Doctor 's but he er he has n't sent me a letter .
9 Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’
10 So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever .
11 Such awareness does not govern everything a Home Secretary does or says in public , but it will never be far from his thoughts .
12 The isotherm for CO2 at 321 K shows that the gas does not liquefy whatever the pressure or volume at this temperature .
13 The ‘ Thatcher governments ’ of 1979 onwards argued that ‘ the world does not owe us a living ’ .
14 It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him .
15 ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . )
16 But again this does not make me a Christian .
17 But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla .
18 Making passing references to the poor , the black and to women does not make one a radical or even a liberal .
19 ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such .
20 You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations .
21 Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black .
22 A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules .
23 Nevertheless , they all work basically by trying to fit the input into a set of stored templates , and if some input does not fit anything the machine has been given , it simply replies ‘ I do not understand . ’
24 Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend .
25 This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments .
26 The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve .
27 In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors .
28 In 1915 , Grand Admiral von Tirpitz confided to his diary : ‘ The Kaiser does not give him a chance . ’
29 When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) .
30 An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead .
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