Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These complications often coexisted and with the exception of pelvic sepsis , their incidence has not fallen with increased experience with the operation . |
| 2 | However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services . |
| 3 | The model suggested has not met with widespread acceptance . |
| 4 | Your Committee , far from hibernating , has not ceased from mental strife , nor has its sword slept in its hand , if we have not yet built Jerusalem , we have at least laid siege to the walls of Jericho in the shape of Crestacare Management . |
| 5 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 6 | Despite having coached Northerns so well in tandem with Williams in the late Eighties , Eugene Van Wyk was refused and Ian Kirkpatrick , who has not coached at provincial level for at least a decade , has been named . |
| 7 | The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 8 | It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research . |
| 9 | Although he has always given strong leadership , Jan Hoet has not acted by divine right but more like a president , encouraging an on-going debate between the exhibition 's four curators . |
| 10 | It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries . |
| 11 | Science does not rest upon solid bedrock . |
| 12 | His or her belief , as we have defined it , does not rest upon privileged insight into a supernatural reality hidden from the unbeliever . |
| 13 | In fact , the employers ' central confederation ( BDA ) does not engage in collective bargaining and , although it does provide information and guidance to its affiliates via its collective bargaining coordination committee , its pronouncements on wages take the form of non-binding recommendations . |
| 14 | However , although the overall price rise permitted has been fixed , this does not prevent BT from increasing different tariffs at different rates ( provided it does not engage in Predatory pricing ) . |
| 15 | As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain . |
| 16 | A market economy that registers only effective demands made upon it may find or tend towards an ‘ equilibrium ’ that does not coincide with full employment , and hence the manipulation of aggregate demand ( especially via the more potent fiscal weapons ) can produce a preferred path for the economy . |
| 17 | But country of birth does not equate with ethnic origin and a significant proportion of all minority groups ( 43 per cent ) are now born in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | The article was terminated by a line of words beginning with B. The empty reproduction of information ( a contagion of the Eighties ) does not contribute to rational knowledge and reasoned thought . |
| 19 | Once again , this division does not accord with political affiliation ; Baudrillard attacks Marx and Marxist assertions of natural utility with as much vehemence as contemporary critics attack modernist architecture as an elitist imposition of ideology upon the general public . |
| 20 | For example , Hemming 's account of lands disputed between the bishopric of Worcester and Evesham Abbey does not accord with other evidence , and nor does the Ramsey chronicle 's version of the difficulties experienced by their abbot early in Cnut 's reign . |
| 21 | Because the do document , Patterns of Ministry does not talk about lay presidency ! |
| 22 | When it does not spring from mere distaste for all that is foreign , hostility to party lists is commonly associated with obsessive and fatalistic mistrust of political parties themselves . |
| 23 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 24 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 25 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 26 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 27 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 28 | There are no ghost references in any of the town 's histories and Stamford does not appear in national ghost hunting books . |
| 29 | The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) . |
| 30 | That apparatus does not fit with parliamentary self-government . |