Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter did not even pause in his stride . |
| 2 | The response did not greatly surprise him . |
| 3 | Mr Smith said the Premier had not just humiliated himself and his Government through the sterling crisis — he had humiliated Britain . |
| 4 | From my understanding , more than a quarter of a million TM practitioners in England are in ignorance , currently invoking heathen deities twice a day , and the majority do not even know it ! |
| 5 | Work on the overhaul of the boiler has not yet commenced . |
| 6 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 7 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 8 | ‘ Getting the sack did not really affect my confidence . |
| 9 | What they were requesting was the co-operation of the Chilean Navy Yard in installing steel bits strong enough to ensure that the hawser did not again tear itself free . |
| 10 | But he had to stay , he said — because the parliament had not yet confirmed his new prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar . |
| 11 | This disjunctive , unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them . |
| 12 | Developing the theory is complicated by the fact that the linguistic structure of the text does not necessarily mirror the structure of the world . |
| 13 | Expensive litigation is still some way off The whisky has not fully taken its toll . |
| 14 | Clauses forbidding assignment of the contract do not however prevent a seller from factoring or otherwise assigning the debts due to him from his buyer as a result of his performance of the contract . |
| 15 | In addition , the Board of Inland Revenue must be indemnified by the people who were partners immediately before the first change , and by anyone joining the partnership on that or a later change , against any loss of tax arising on a partner 's claim that the election does not strictly comply with the provisions of s 113(2) and that the cessation basis should have been applied . |
| 16 | The plain fact is that one may learn something about features of recovery by looking at large numbers of individuals but the converse does not wholly follow . |
| 17 | Thus , if the buyer does not immediately buy replacement goods but does so subsequently and at a different price from the market price at the date of the breach , that is normally irrelevant . |
| 18 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |
| 19 | The early retinoic acid-induced ectopic expression of the r4 Hox code in a broad anterior region of the hindbrain does not permanently result in this entire region adopting an r4 identity , as has been proposed . |
| 20 | If this happens the basis will fall by 3180 - ( 2100 - 2 x ) = £1080 + 2 x , Provided the index does not unexpectedly rise by more than unc = 540 points ( 23% ) , a most unlikely event , Bash Brannigan will make a profit from speculating on the basis . |
| 21 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
| 22 | Note that if the user has not yet assessed the DC only the MODULES field in this structure will contain valid information . |
| 23 | NOT ASSESSED the user has not yet assessed the DC . |
| 24 | If the user has not yet assessed the DC , a message to this effect will be displayed at the foot of the page . |
| 25 | The driver had not even seen him . |
| 26 | The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ . |
| 27 | For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators . |
| 28 | The college has not yet applied for an English Heritage grant , for which it would certainly be eligible . |
| 29 | The stranger had not once glanced in their direction . |
| 30 | " The roof did not actually leak very much before it was taken in hand to be repaired : but is now reported to be in need of more repairs . " |