Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 2 | 79/80 class lists are included with these notes where they were not personally collected on the 21st June . |
| 3 | A second dimension , to serve as the horizontal axis , is selected from the next highest scoring constructs provided that this is not highly correlated with the first choice . |
| 4 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 5 | Our first loss , as you correctly said , was at Palace , and it was not only lost in the last minute , it was in the 94th minute of a terrible game . |
| 6 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 7 | But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand . |
| 8 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 9 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 10 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 11 | The questions about their nature and extent which had exercised lawyers in the sixteenth century were not completely answered in the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 12 | Such practices outraged the leading churchmen of the day , but they were so popular that they were not completely suppressed until the fifteenth century . |
| 13 | Prescription charges were not actually introduced until the next Conservative government in 1951 . |
| 14 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 15 | The morpheme liver is not explicitly stored in the first lexicon distributed with the ANLT . |
| 16 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 17 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 18 | You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit ! |