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 . ’
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