Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of women representatives had not increased dramatically over the 50 years since women first gained the vote on equal terms with men . |
| 2 | In an intervention , the hon. Member for Hammersmith tried to suggest that housing association output had not increased greatly since the 1970s . |
| 3 | The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry . |
| 4 | The left side of his heart had not grown properly in the womb . |
| 5 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 6 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 7 | She hoped Veronica Puddephat had not moved out of the Red House after the separation . |
| 8 | As yet he had not succumbed completely to the seductive prose of Pater and was reading the ‘ artificial but interesting Marius ’ side by side with Scott , Meredith , Hardy 's Jude , and Flaubert 's letters . |
| 9 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 10 | Their minds had not reached out to the terror of what had in fact happened . |
| 11 | But that was because he had not attended sufficiently to the constitution of the club and its regulations as introduced by a legally elected committee . |
| 12 | She had not altered overmuch in the twelve months since she was covering cars with eggs and flour and ringing doorbells with her giggling friends . |
| 13 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 14 | They had not gone far before the leading vehicle halted at a metal pole stretched across the road , and the rest of the convoy bunched up behind . |
| 15 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 16 | You must also take your hat off to Curtis Strange who had not played well during the week but who birdied the final four holes — no mean feat — to ensure that his country was n't beaten . |
| 17 | Later surveys of voluntary work have produced varied results ( Halfpenny , 1990 ) , but it seems that about three in ten adults undertook voluntary work on behalf of an organisation in 1990 , a figure that had not changed much throughout the 1980s . |
| 18 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 19 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 20 | The practices of livestock owners had not changed significantly with the spread of veterinary services and they too required more land . |
| 21 | The authority had not found out about the incident involving the cadets at Leek until they were in hospital , but tests on the water taken about the same time showed toxics from algae present . |
| 22 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 23 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 24 | Manpower shortages were acute in agriculture , textiles and coal-mining — the last of which had not performed well during the war mainly , though not entirely , as a result of a shortage of miners and an ageing labour force . |
| 25 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 26 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 27 | Matters had not proceeded entirely without the odd hitch or two for the young couple — mainly because the bride was heavily pregnant with a child , one conceived during the long dry summer of 1807 . |
| 28 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 29 | Her education had not included much in the way of ballroom-dancing . |
| 30 | Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party . |