Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of giving has not increased in real terms at all significantly in the late 1980s despite attempts to increase its attractiveness through various tax reliefs . |
| 2 | Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears . |
| 3 | These complications often coexisted and with the exception of pelvic sepsis , their incidence has not fallen with increased experience with the operation . |
| 4 | However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services . |
| 5 | Even with this limitation , however , and even given the fact that the Court in this case says by way of principle little that it has not said in previous cases , one should not underestimate the impact of this new illustration of the Court 's conception of the reach of the Directive in terms of the nature of the activities it covers . |
| 6 | The model suggested has not met with widespread acceptance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An economic Policy is what the Government has not had since Black Wednesday , although the Autumn Statement on Thursday will hopefully change that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | But the Bank recently published a paper called : ‘ Why structural adjustment has not succeeded in Sub-Saharan Africa ’ . |
| 13 | It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 16 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Science does not rest upon solid bedrock . |
| 19 | His or her belief , as we have defined it , does not rest upon privileged insight into a supernatural reality hidden from the unbeliever . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | If Sheila does not co-operate with social workers , it may not help if her mother is dragged in on the social workers ' side . |
| 23 | In practice , spontaneous speech does not consist of fluent sequences of grammatically correct sentences , but is hesitant , sometimes repetitive and grammatically incorrect . |
| 24 | The training set does not consist of labelled examples and counter examples . |
| 25 | Table 1 does not consist of water-tight compartments but should rather be regarded as displaying general categories which may run into each other , more as two sets of continua rather than as two polar ideal types . |
| 26 | However , society does not consist of isolated individuals . |
| 27 | As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain . |
| 28 | Where it does not coincide with cultural frontiers , it is insignificant . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |