Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chile is Britain 's oldest ally in the Southern Hemisphere … and the Falcons were determined not to miss out on the celebrations to mark the 75th birthday of the Royal Air Force . |
| 2 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 3 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 4 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 5 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 6 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 7 | I 'm not messin' about with no glasses . |
| 8 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 9 | Those regulations not carried out under the auspices of the SIB include insider dealing , takeovers and mergers , and the listing of new issues . |
| 10 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 11 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 12 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 13 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 14 | But the NAIRU is indeed likely to be lower these days — partly because the labour market works better , and partly because some of those out of work will not show up in the figures . |
| 15 | It may be that Candida is overabundant , but that this does not show up in the stools because the yeast is attached to the gut wall in some way — perhaps in its hyphal form . |
| 16 | Although it does not show up in the analyses , content surely also became more international , in source of origin , if not always in substance . |
| 17 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 18 | Coun Arthur Taylor said there was no planning opposition so they should not give in to the vandals by refusing the application . |
| 19 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 20 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 21 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 22 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 23 | Even if the loan is not called in by the investors , there are likely to be other implications . |
| 24 | Mr Wilson said last night that they had talked to a lot of the villagers and were determined not to give in to the vandals . |
| 25 | As the carriage rolled down the driveway , Emily looked straight ahead , holding herself erect , determined not to give in to the tears that threatened to overflow . |
| 26 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 27 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 28 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 30 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |