Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 2 | Professor G.W. Keeton favoured a periodic judicial abstract restatement of general principles , a practice which , apart from obiter dicta , is not provided for in the English legal system , which is anathema to the judges and which is surely legislative responsibility . |
| 3 | This selection also includes several episodes not dealt with in the first half of this book , but which are an integral part of El Cid 's legend . |
| 4 | ‘ Certainly it is not known outside of the Bright Palace , and equally certainly it is not known outside of the innermost Council Chambers . |
| 5 | ‘ Certainly it is not known outside of the Bright Palace , and equally certainly it is not known outside of the innermost Council Chambers . |
| 6 | The question principally debated was whether the duty had been validly imposed by the Sovereign though not consented to by the British Parliament or the local Assembly , and this question was answered in the negative . |
| 7 | The answer , quantum theory tells us , is that the particles do not come from within the black hole , but from the " empty " space just outside the black hole 's event horizon ! |
| 8 | erm is not talking to in the first place |
| 9 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 10 | It may accept a submission with or without qualification , or it may recommend that it should be not proceeded with in the current session . |
| 11 | In Scotland , 1,483 people were arrested and charged , but as many as 33 per cent of these were not proceeded against by the Procurator-fiscal . |
| 12 | Perhaps , it was surmised , another star had a near-miss with the sun , and supplied additional energy not accounted for in the angular momentum theory . |
| 13 | However , this study demonstrated that the increased prevalence of macrovascular complications was not accounted for by the increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension . |
| 14 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 15 | It is paralleled but surely not accounted for by the Greek practice of naked athletics ; but , whatever its origin , from now on it is a basic convention of art in Greece that males ( not females ) may be shown naked in any context . |
| 16 | Which I do n't approve of in the slightest . |