Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 2 | That question is not addressed to an association or a federation . |
| 3 | Low Church Protestants see the ceremony as a memorial — they would argue that Christ is always present with believers and this presence is not deepened by a ceremony and that grace is through faith alone , not ceremonies . |
| 4 | The main difficulty from our point of view was that AIB was not organised in a manner that lent itself to giving instruction . |
| 5 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 6 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 7 | However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations . |
| 8 | The dogs are taken to kennels at Langley Moor and destroyed if they 're not claimed within a week and can not be sold . |
| 9 | We 've also in London , the London Region took , took tribunal for caretakers who were , who were not transferred from a school and we won that tribunal . |
| 10 | After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success . |
| 11 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 12 | It would appear we have too many priorities in education and although health education is included in the curriculum it is not seen as a priority unless something goes wrong ! |
| 13 | Increasingly management is not seen as an end or goal in itself . |
| 14 | It should be noted that if only one of the shareholders of the company is not connected to a director or manager of the company then the exemption will be unavailable to both the vendors and the purchaser . |
| 15 | In this context , if there exist differences in the unit cost and therefore the competitiveness of nations which are not connected in a customs or monetary union , then attempts to eliminate such differences ( reflected in associated balance of payments positions ) can potentially be made via trade restrictions or movements in relative exchange rates , although the effectiveness of the latter policy is by no means certain . |
| 16 | Staff had spent most of Friday afternoon and evening looking for the child and the owner , Alan Tym , had gone back again late that night to double check that James had not crawled behind a counter or into a cupboard and fallen asleep . |
| 17 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 18 | Some land involved was not bought until a year and a half after the find . |
| 19 | The sociology of knowledge was not founded on an epistemology but this meant only that its empirical analyses could not be interpreted according to a pre-established system . |
| 20 | It 's not handed on a plate or anything . |
| 21 | It was a long trip , not helped by a tyre that cried ‘ enough ! ’ in the middle of nowhere and required changing — a job made more difficult by the fact that Odd-Knut had no spare — but ultimately we arrived at the entrance to Rostadalen . |
| 22 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 23 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 24 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 25 | There was hardly any area of the wall where the order of the mortared stone blocks was not interrupted by a face or a protruding limb . |
| 26 | Poverty was not experienced as a problem because there was so little that women wanted to spend money on ( 'No , I do n't go out in the evenings , Mother does n't like it . ’ |
| 27 | It is not marked by a roundabout nor by overhead lighting nor arrows on the tarmac , although modern road signs have replaced the old fingerpost , and indeed the junction is insignificant , merely a meeting of country lanes . |
| 28 | But the loss , damage or delay has occurred during the carriage by the other means of transport and was not caused by an act or omission of the carrier by road is determined not by the CMR but by the applicable international convention . |
| 29 | SPORT : For the first time soccer is not represented in a final although there were plenty of nominations including John Aldridge , Peter Beardsely and Steve McManamann . |
| 30 | These same tests should be satisfied before a magistrate commits anyone for trial in relation to a libel which has not appeared in a newspaper or periodical . |