Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
| 2 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
| 3 | Another type of work which is disliked is emotionally demanding work , a category not recognized elsewhere in the literature on the police . |
| 4 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 5 | As Simmel and every subsequent commentator on this work has stressed , The Philosophy of Money is not intended primarily as a treatise on money as an economic form , but as an examination of the increasingly abstract nature of human relations , for which money provides a symbol and an instrument . |
| 6 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 7 | In her letter to BR Mrs. Buttigieg asked why the registration number of her car was not checked out against the season ticket holders ' records . |
| 8 | It is personal and not explained solely by the fact that Lang has a marginal seat and the SNP is the main competitor . |
| 9 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 10 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 11 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 12 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 13 | Volcanoes are not scattered randomly around the world . |
| 14 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 15 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 16 | Consequently the density reduction due to the high temperature of the fluid going into an upflow is not cancelled out by a density increase due to high concentration . |
| 17 | Our conclusion was that control over these matters is not located entirely in the market , as the theory of consumer sovereignty holds , but is divided between companies and the market in an uncertain and complex way . |
| 18 | City ( 6th ) , who have not won away in the League since November , are without Quinn ( hamstring and dislocated finger ) , with player-manager Reid likely to recall himself . |
| 19 | Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby . |
| 20 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 21 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 22 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 23 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 24 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 25 | And he had not come here as a lover , in any case . |
| 26 | Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is . |
| 27 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 28 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 29 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 30 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |