Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 2 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
| 3 | ‘ If you look at past efforts to launch soccer here in the States it has not met with a great deal of viewing support , ’ said Bill Sherman , a vice president with the McCann Ericson advertising agency . |
| 4 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 5 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 6 | The matter has not resulted in a bitter enmity between us , you know . |
| 7 | This follows on for from our concern about industrial development in the Harrogate District and that is that we are very pleased that the Harr that the North Yorkshire County Council has not embarked upon a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 8 | The leading Spanish master , who has not shown in a commercial gallery in London since 1965 , was the subject of a study at the Hayward Gallery in 1990 . |
| 9 | Wasps hooker Kevin Dunn has not recovered from a bruised shoulder and is out of the tie at Rosslyn Park . |
| 10 | It has not listened on a whole series of points , even though I am very grateful that amendments have been agreed to in the course of our debate this evening . |
| 11 | The Centre of African Studies in Edinburgh has always maintained a focus on the whole of Africa , and has not concentrated on a particular region — such as West or Southern . |
| 12 | This has not occurred in a simplistic or deterministic manner , as can be seen from the retention of the abolition of the death penalty . |
| 13 | In contrast with most other studies on exfoliative cytology for bile duct strictures this study has not focused on a particular primary site of tumour but rather the overall use of cytology with biliary strictures . |
| 14 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 15 | However , the purchaser should be aware that the effect of the decision by the House of Lords in the recent case of Walford v Miles [ 1992 ] 1 All ER 453 is that the purchaser can achieve exclusivity only in the sense that the vendor undertakes not to negotiate with a third party for a fixed period . |
| 16 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 17 | Thus Jacobi 's method does not terminate in a finite , predictable number of steps ; indeed , the umber may be very large . |
| 18 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 19 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 20 | All in all , it is submitted that the claim that there is a risk of liability under section 2 of the Suicide Act does not serve as a valid justification for ignoring the request of the patient that treatment be discontinued . |
| 21 | Unlike still red wines , sparkling Champagne does not benefit from a detectable tannin content , although a little tannin will be added prior to the last racking to activate the fining agent . |
| 22 | I doubt if it is possible to hold the view of Margalef ( 1968 ) that ‘ Relevant evidence does not consist of a massive accumulation of trivia ’ and reconcile it with his ‘ Ecology … is the study of systems at a level at which individuals or whole organisms may be considered elements of interaction … ’ . |
| 23 | Furth 's ( 1966 ) view is that there is an experiential deficit which appears repeatedly in test situations , but this does not coincide with a cognitive deficit . |
| 24 | But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London . |
| 25 | In approximately 30% of cases the epithelium does not change to a homogeneous phenotype and this is characterised by an ‘ incomplete ’ intestinal epithelium with both gastric foveolar and intestinal goblet cells and enterocytes . |
| 26 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 27 | The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being . |
| 28 | So this does not appear as a technical difference . |
| 29 | Transport does not appear as a separate item , but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities . |
| 30 | Eli himself for the most part does not appear in a bad light , but as the one responsible for the proper functioning of the sanctuary , he is implicated in his sons ' guilt , is at one point accused of sharing their greed , and is doomed to share in great disgrace about to befall his family . |