Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 2 | The participants warned that by their next summit , scheduled for Sept. 25 in Bishkek ( Kirgizstan ) , states which had not ratified their membership of the CIS ( Azerbaijan and Moldova ) should do so . |
| 3 | I have not forgotten our conversation about the need to get serious global environmental problems across to ‘ ordinary people in Wales ’ at a very personal level . |
| 4 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 5 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 6 | Merlyn demanded to know why he had not reported her departure at the time . |
| 7 | The pups are not fed their meal before the party but , instead , the organiser provides every human a small bag of dry dog food . |
| 8 | A MUSLIM woman who has not seen her bridegroom since the day of a registrar 's office wedding had her marriage annulled yesterday by a Scottish judge . |
| 9 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 10 | It may be said that , over many years , I have seldom known cases of marital difficulty in which sexual difficulty did not lie in the background ; but , equally , I have seldom known marriages where a major relationship difficulty has not had its effect on the satisfactions of sex . |
| 11 | Rugs from these countries have not found their way into the West to any large degree . |
| 12 | Microphotography brought new methods of book and periodical production , and data storage , that even now have surely not exhausted their usefulness in the mere saving of shelf-space . |
| 13 | Had he not plodded his way to the fairs and markets , to the countless isolated communities in villages and hamlets , the English race would have been immeasurably poorer in its literature , its recreations and its memories of the past . |
| 14 | While the US Congress remained hostile , the US administration had not voiced its opposition to the proposed agreement in spite of its previous strong objections to any forced repatriation , preferring instead to maintain a " neutral reaction " to deportations . |
| 15 | William Wallace of Elderslie , son of a Renfrewshire landowner , was one of the lesser gentry who had not put his name to the document of submissions , known as the Ragman 's Roll because of the ribbons dangling from its seals . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock has drawn Labour some way from its old follies , but he has manifestly not cured its obsession with the distribution of wealth , as opposed to its creation . |
| 17 | This powerful combination and union of men and measures ' could not have prevailed ‘ if God had not bestowed His blessing on the work ’ . |
| 18 | For example , Haringey has still not taken its place within the Community Consultative Group set up after Lord Scarman 's report on the disorders of 1981 . |
| 19 | He expressed surprise that the Lebanese Forces militia , Gen Aoun 's ally , had not thrown its weight behind the new regime . |
| 20 | He expressed surprise that the Lebanese Forces militia , Gen Aoun 's ally , had not thrown its weight behind the new regime . |
| 21 | Barnett J. went on to hold that the district judge had mistakenly overlooked the reversal of the burden of proof at the second stage but that this had not vitiated his assessment of the material and arguments , nor his arrival at the correct conclusion that the prosecution had discharged the burden thus placed upon it . |
| 22 | The suggestion that the health authority has not kept its side of the bargain was unfair . |
| 23 | But the tribunal chairman , David Latham , ruled that Ruth Taylor , 50 , of Scarborough , North Yorkshire , had not lost her job over the issue of Sunday working . |
| 24 | Before you leave , double-check your bag has everything any marathon runner could ever need inside and as you arrive ( calm and collected , having not lost your temper with the public transport system ) do a little stretching and gentle jogging . |
| 25 | Celtic should be encouraged by the form of Paul McStay , who orchestrated their dominance in this match and clearly has not lost his zest for the game after a long winter injury . |
| 26 | Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed . |
| 27 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 28 | At least I know something about such problems ; they were my original reason for opposing the scheme , and I have not changed my mind in the slightest . |
| 29 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 30 | Whatever Michael Banks had done with Lesley-Jane the previous evening — and something in their manner towards each other suggested he had done something — it had not improved his grasp of the lines . |