Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The doctor , Malcolm Pleydell , noted that David Stirling did not look well . |
2 | Penny Junor does not think this decision has been taken yet but believes that the second option is possible . |
3 | Eleanor Ramsay did not become pregnant until three years later . |
4 | CONTRARY to Broadway gospel , Dustin Hoffman does not have star billing in the new ‘ Merchant of Venice . ’ |
5 | Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years . |
6 | For some unaccountable reason she had bent down to inspect the floor , hoping , though Dr Neil did not know this , to escape the attentions of Havvie and his friends , all of whom had known her well in her old life . |
7 | Touche Ross does not audit United , but was chosen because the club 's directors viewed the firm ‘ as independent of the auditors ’ . |
8 | Dr Bhatiani said Dr Almahawi did not undertake any surgery with the practice and Department of Health guidelines on doctors with HIV were followed fully . |
9 | Dr Craven did not look happy when he left the room . |
10 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
11 | He was a schoolteacher and a very nice man , I understand , but there was n't much opportunity for Mother to go out and have a little enjoyment and apparently Aunt Bessie did not encourage such things . |
12 | Dr Clare does not address any of these problems directly , but tells us a lot about his childhood , which seems to have been quite nice , unless he is trying to hide something shameful . |
13 | In the Cleveland Report , however , Lord Justice Butler-Sloss does not consider this should prevent the attendance of parents . |
14 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
15 | But conversely ( as Mr. Utley did not feel able to dispute , although he did not formally concede the point ) a defendant who is legally aided at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , but who for any reason then ceases to be aided and incurs the full costs of successfully resisting an appeal to the House of Lords , is eligible to recover those costs from the board . |
16 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Watch the birdie PRESIDENT Mitterrand did not allow last week 's premiership crisis to deflect him from his usual Monday morning pastime : playing golf at St Cloud , near Paris . |
17 | Mr Aycliffe did not answer this . |
18 | The writings of Donald McGavran do not make clear the relationship he sees between the Church and the Kingdom . |
19 | Mr Malik did not seem pleased to see it again . |
20 | Mr Malik did not seem anxious that Mafouz should let go of the ball until he was absolutely ready to do so . |
21 | But Mr Craven did not know this . |
22 | Mr Yeltsin did not win enough votes to enable him to call a new parliamentary election constitutionally . |
23 | Mr Young does not have much time for fancy patterns with three dimensional ‘ fiddly ’ bits . |
24 | To his credit , Mr Allen did not go mad and even managed to find an Eskimo poet who returned from Copenhagen in the revolutionary year of 1967 to see what was happening in Greenland ( 'Nothing ’ ) . |
25 | I 'm pleased to note that Mr Anson did not follow this well-worn , easy route . |
26 | But Matthew Blake did not seem prepared to let her off the hook so easily . |
27 | As the guest calling himself Mr Smythe did not have legal title to the cheque , he could not give legal title to the hotelier ; therefore , the cheque would not be paid and the hotelier would suffer the loss . |
28 | Mr Wolski did not understand this , but he always smiled when someone in authority smiled and he smiled now . |
29 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
30 | ‘ Although Mr Crawford does not impress any firmness of personality on Feste , ’ wrote The Times 's critic , ‘ the comic scenes , with Mr Stephen Moore 's Sir Andrew joining whole-heartedly in the romp , are disciplined and not uninventive . ’ |