Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US said yesterday the contras should not disband this week , as required by a regional peace agreement , because Nicaragua has not fulfilled conditions of the pact . |
| 2 | Nonetheless it is perhaps surprising that the librarian has not crossed swords with the law over obscene and indecent literature before now . |
| 3 | If the publication of such matter has not incurred penalties under the law it should not be excluded from libraries on any moral , political , religious or racial ground alone , to satisfy any sectional interest . |
| 4 | He has n't done things in the sort of , you know , the preferred way . |
| 5 | He now regrets not giving changes in the structure of local government a higher priority in that rescue . |
| 6 | The formula rewards authorities with large numbers of local independent providers and does not allocate resources to the authorities from which residents using that independently run care originated . |
| 7 | The Stock Exchange 's exoneration does not affect the Serious Fraud Office 's investigation into Maxwell share-support schemes and the report does not cover transactions outside the period named . |
| 8 | The Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985 , although extending powers beyond the onset of incompetence does not cover decisions concerning the grantor 's person , which would include treatment , but appears to relate only to the management of his property . |
| 9 | The problem of budgetary control does not affect revenues in the same way as expenses . |
| 10 | Yes it 's a page of Government paper in Summerchild 's judicious hand , which does not make holes in the paper , or need x-ing out , or fall off the bottom of the page : |
| 11 | If the sender does not intend violations of the principle to be perceived as such , or if the receiver does not realize that they are deliberate , then communication degenerates into lying , obfuscation , or simply breaks down altogether . |
| 12 | But this does not relieve courts of the need to decide technical issues arising in litigation : expert witnesses are called and courts are often required to choose between the conflicting testimony of expert witnesses called by opposing parties . |
| 13 | I agree also that if the writing of the will and the appending of the signature are all one operation , it does not matter whereabouts on the document or when in the course of the writing the signature is appended . |
| 14 | Creative Technology Ltd , Singapore has now formally sound-blasted its planned offering of 5m shares , 2m of them new , but does not give plans for the indicated $52m or so net proceeds . |
| 15 | The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the muscle does not localize receptors to the synapse without instruction from the motor neuron , nor does a second , much larger , synthesis of receptors occur in muscles deprived of innervation . |
| 17 | ( She may feel no such constraint because spending all the grant does not increase taxes in the locality . ) |
| 18 | Further , accuracy is better because the method does not consider portions of the utterances with low credibility until they become possible extensions of the current best interpretation , whereas a left-to-right strategy is forced to deal with unpromising portions as they occur in the utterance . |
| 19 | One who does not have ties to the old regime is ninth on the list : Janusz Lekszton , a 29-year-old Gdynia-based entrepreneur whose firm , EL-GAZ , produces gas stoves , pipes and other building materials . |
| 20 | Brooke-Rose does not impose metaphors on the thematic material she employs in Out , rather she chooses to work with material that is already metaphoric . |
| 21 | He does not see computers as a mere aid to teaching , but as an integral part of providing a child with Piagetian materials to learn with . |
| 22 | It does not include members of the Cabinet or Government , or of the shadow Cabinet , and , unfortunately , is not even allowed to include Parliamentary Private Secretaries . |
| 23 | It does not require restrictions on the movement of capital simply to be abolished ; rather it requires them to be abolished ‘ to the extent necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the common market ’ . |
| 24 | Officially , Britain does not provide advisers to the Salvadoreans . |
| 25 | This is not something to take lightly because if the team does not field competitors in the way described on the list , then that team can be disqualified . |
| 26 | We regret , the hotel does not accept infants under the age of two . |
| 27 | A Supreme Soviet of fine words and few deeds could quickly become just an irritant , a scapegoat for a ‘ democratization ’ which does not put goods in the shops . |
| 28 | ( Piaget did carry out an oral version of the task , but he does not report details of the results . ) |
| 29 | This works because the tongue does not recognise particles under a certain size as individual particles , but collectively as a creamy fluid . |
| 30 | He has n't got skill , he does n't make runs off the ball and he does n't even tackle properly . |