Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , they found that parents regarded care on a voluntary basis as helpful and positive — a service to families in times of difficulty that should be more readily offered , not treated as a last resort . |
| 2 | Where further notification is not given on the fourth day in accordance with the procedures laid down for the second stage , you shall not be disentitled to SSP from the fourth day of absence for that reason only . |
| 3 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 4 | If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on . |
| 5 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 6 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 7 | But the parties are not confined to the first perspective . |
| 8 | In contrast , it is not said by the third defendant or by anyone else that the third party was guilty of any form of dishonesty . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , just make sure we 're not disturbed for the next half-hour , will you ? ’ |
| 10 | In Mark and Luke , the betrayer is not named at the Last Supper itself . |
| 11 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
| 12 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |
| 13 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 14 | Examples of these are the Commission 's own proposals to extend privileges for unconvicted prisoners on remand to convicted prisoners awaiting sentence [ which will encourage early guilty pleas ] and the adjustment of legal aid fee scales to encourage more early preparatory work by counsel so that important decisions are not made at the last minute . |
| 15 | The distinction between ordinary and honours students is normally not made until the third year . |
| 16 | To maintain this focus , the book does not dwell much on forms of expert determination where the decision is not made by a third party or the decision is interim . |
| 17 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 18 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
| 19 | Income tax is not levied on every last penny of your money . |
| 20 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 22 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 23 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
| 24 | However , it was not used in the Second World War , nor in many other wars . |
| 25 | We want to ensure that people are not landed with a second taxation system which is as unfair and unjust as the poll tax . |
| 26 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 27 | The emergency staff had realised at 5 a.m. on Thursday 7 July that dialysis patients were at special risk from the aluminium , but the house of Robert Hill , a local man with kidney failure and a dialysis machine , was not contacted until the next day . |
| 28 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 29 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 30 | The lawyer told the court the injured party went to hospital where he was told his ear could have been sewn back on if he had brought it with him , but it was not found until the next day . |