Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It appears that regulation has not been tightened after the Barlow Clowes affair , nor have the lessons been learned .
2 We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’
3 Coaching , however , has not been developed in the UK as much as it should have been .
4 This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play .
5 Through all the vicissitudes of history , the crown came to embody Hungarian nationality and the Kingship remained elective , so that it was still possible for Hungarians in 1860 to deny Francis Joseph sovereignty because he had not been crowned with the crown of St Stephen .
6 Major Olechea has not been detained since the coup .
7 Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing .
8 According to the official statement the process was delayed because the census had still to be completed and the election code had not been adopted by the HCR .
9 A statutory demand under s 268 , Insolvency Act 1986 could not be made to recover tax payable as determined by the General Commissioner when the notice of that amount had not been served on the taxpayer at his usual or last known place of residence under s 115 , TMA 1970 , according to Chancery Division in Re a Debtor ( No 124/50/91 ) , Ex Parte the Debtor v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 888 .
10 In the course of the hearing , counsel for the Crown accepted that , if notice for the amounts payable as determined by the General Commissioners had not been served on the debtor , the tax had never become payable under s 55(a) , TMA 1970 and s 5 , TA 1988 .
11 A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " .
12 ‘ After ascertaining that the reproductions had not been printed by the artist herself ’ , he writes , ‘ [ The Copyright Office ] ruled that the printer 's contribution added enough originality to the process to make the reproductions derivative works … and that the copyrights of the reproductions were therefore owned by the printers .
13 Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress .
14 Where important structural timbers are infected but have not been weakened by the fungus , it may be practical to treat them with fungicide to retain them .
15 He said that the matter had not been raised in the JLG , and threatened that China would not honour the contract .
16 The UK Government has pressed beneficiaries of UK development aid to respect human rights , but the death penalty has not been raised in the negotiations .
17 Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that .
18 Regret theory has several surprising predictions that had not been tested at the time the theory was first presented : for example , it predicts that individuals ' choices may ‘ cycle ’ ( eg A is chosen in preference to B , B in preference to C and C in preference to A ) .
19 If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible .
20 She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women .
21 Loretta would have guessed its origin even if the paper 's name had not been stamped on the cutting .
22 So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is .
23 So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is .
24 The only discovery which has definitely not been incorporated in the project is the dreaded tawse once used to beat the wayward .
25 Who has not been cheered by the song of a robin or thrush , the sight of a kingfisher or the flickering patterns made by a rising flock of lapwings against a dark winter sky , and not felt the better for the experience ?
26 But that plea has not been accepted by the crown .
27 Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands .
28 Where the false trade description has not been applied by the retailer , the special defence of " reasonable diligence " in s24(3) of TDA 1968 may be relied upon .
29 Section 11 permits the revocation of an authorisation if , inter alia , it appears that any of the criteria specified in Schedule 3 is not or has not been fulfilled by the institution concerned .
30 The Constitutional Court on March 3 ruled unconstitutional a bill passed in November 1991 [ see p. 38585 ] , which would have allowed prosecutions for serious crimes committed between Dec. 21 , 1944 , and May 2 , 1990 ( notably in the postwar purges and the repression of the 1956 uprising ) , which had not been prosecuted at the time for political reasons as being in conflict with the Constitution .
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