Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But on this trip Gooch has not even had that pleasure and it is imperative now for England 's chances of winning back the Ashes from Australia this summer that their weary 39-year-old captain quickly recovers in health and spirit when he returns home on Saturday week .
2 But the Conservative Government has not simply spent more money on the NHS .
3 The DOS environment can now handle mixed data at least as well , but has not yet achieved comparable market penetration , due in part to brand loyalty .
4 has not yet done any work for you
5 But the FDA has not yet given this approval .
6 The commercial paper market might still challenge these established markets , although for the reasons discussed above it has not yet developed critical mass .
7 Triticale bread has not yet gained wide acceptance in developing countries where supermarkets and bakeries sell mostly white bread made from bleached flour .
8 Det Insp John Tough , of Cleveland Police drug squad , said : ‘ Our intelligence has not yet revealed unauthorised use , but we can not rule it out . ’
9 It has not yet reached that target and I urge it to re-examine its spending allocations to make sure that it does .
10 My son has not yet had adequate lessons in French . ’
11 He has not yet had enough time to close the gap , to find a way of associating Conservative values with a public political culture .
12 In the absence of other worm supplies it may be hard to resist the temptation of feeding tubifex , particularly if one has not yet had any casualties following feeding .
13 The mosaic of room XVIII at Lydney has not yet provided such evidence for revision .
14 Compatibility With the exception of certain disk-fiddling utilities , as previously mentioned , Xtradrive exists very happily with everything we 've thrown at it , and has not yet provided any cause for palpitations or sticky moments of any description .
15 Although a small proportion of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis develop colitis only after the biliary presentation — follow up of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis patients ( particularly those with pathogen negative diarrhoea ) has not yet yielded any patients with non-infective colitis .
16 ‘ He has not yet taken final vows , ’ said Cadfael .
17 A UN MISSION has not yet found any detainees in Swapo refugee camps , prison camps , bases and other facilities in Angola and Zambia , the UN Special Representative for Namibia , Martti Ahtisaari , said yesterday .
18 T.W. Mayer Jr was to write in 1837 : ‘ Pathology … exhibits considerable progress , though it has not yet attained that perfection which is desirable ’ .
19 It has not yet transacted any business but will look at ways to develop commercial opportunities .
20 Unita , however , has not yet claimed outright victory in Huambo , where its leader , Jonas Savimbi , has established his headquarters , and the Angolan government said yesterday it was still fighting desperately to save the city .
21 If a sighted guide is needed at the stage when a blind pupil has not completely mastered independent mobility techniques or is in an unfamiliar environment , it is safer and more comfortable if the correct sighted guide technique , which is a very simple one , is adopted .
22 This has not only created severe problems for the national parliaments , who are finding the huge quantity of legislation difficult to scrutinise , it also represents a seepage of power to Brussels , since the best way of attaining power is simply to grab it , whether or not you have a mandate .
23 Her acceptance of this role has not only given enormous pleasure to the membership but it has conferred upon the Association a status in society and an endorsement which only the seal of Royal Patronage can do .
24 Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ .
25 In the OECD area as a whole , industry 's share of total employment passed its peak only in 1969 , and its subsequent reduction in importance was more modest than in the UK , which , almost uniquely , has not only lost much factory employment but also suffered a net loss of factory output from 1974 to 1988 .
26 The manager has always remained the same , but the TV presenter has not only changed each time but there have been serious discrepancies in the age , gender and sexual proclivities of this mysterious media personality .
27 That book has not only attracted innumerable youngsters towards a laboratory career , it has also triggered off a wide range of faction — from Warner Bros 's contributions to bacteriology ( The Story of Louis Pasteur with Paul Muni in 1935 and The Story of a Ehrlich 's Magic Bullet with Edward G. Robinson in 1940 ) to the BBC Television series Microbes and Men in 1974 .
28 It should be pointed out , however , that the particular approach to streaming that occurs at this school has not only had serious implications for the way in which groupings occurred , but that this by definition creates the sort of situation described above .
29 The advent of mass owner occupation has not only meant widespread property ownership for the first time , it has also meant that inheritance of house property has become increasingly common .
30 If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow .
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